Dan Jeffries slams AI doomers: tech serving billions is safer than lawnmowers
Dan_Jeffries1 · x · 2026-09-10
AI commentator Dan Jeffries pushes back hard on AI risk advocates: a technology already deployed to billions with a safety record that makes lawnmowers look dangerous is being called 'uncontrollable.' He argues the burden of proof lies with risk claimants, who offer only appeals to crowds, authority, or impossible certainty about the future — and calls their policy proposals products of terror and delusion that shouldn't be taken seriously.
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