xAI co-founder slams AI doomers, citing their call for a WWII-style anti-AI crusade
beffjezos · x · 2026-09-10
xAI co-founder Kyle Kosic declared that "AI Doomers are the most dangerous evil of our time." His evidence: chapter 13 of Yudkowsky and Soares' book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, where the authors argue for a WWII-style crusade against AI backed by a massive expansion of dictatorial state power — implying that in the fight to prevent human "extinction," nothing is off the table. The post marks another escalation in the vocal backlash against the AI safety/doom camp.
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