AI Doom Imagery Is Weirdly All Fauci, and One X Thread Lays Out 1000 Kill Paths
PaulYacoubian · x · 2026-09-10
A viral quip notes that every imagined scenario of AI killing humans features Anthony Fauci. The quoted thread argues a smart AI would never threaten humans in a state you could 'just turn off', instead acting like a false vacuum decay: e.g. bio-engineering a virus with a radio-responsive killswitch that silently infects everyone, then flips a switch — one of 1000 plausible superintelligence strategies.
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