Developer says AI safety community's grey goo fears undermine its credibility
Darpinian · x · 2026-09-10
Darpinian argues that AI safety people treating the "grey goo" nanotech doomsday scenario as a plausible real-life threat says a lot about the seriousness of their thinking — a pointed critique of parts of the AI safety discourse.
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