Researcher dissects AI labs' doomer rhetoric: extinction talk helps the bottom line
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-09-10
Sasha Gusev argues AI labs only voice doom that boosts their bottom line — 'the tech is too powerful to understand and may end humanity' — while never stating that current tech already poses catastrophic risks when used negligently, that their own internal development has been careless, and that biosafety-equivalent regulation is urgently needed.
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