Melanie Mitchell: press coverage of ">10% extinction risk" is nothing new or evidence-based
MelMitchell1 · x · 2026-09-10
AI researcher Melanie Mitchell says she is baffled that journalists are treating the ">10% risk of human extinction" claim as a novel story worthy of expansive reporting. In her view, there is nothing new here and no new evidence for what she calls an evidence-free claim — a pointed pushback from the skeptic camp against renewed media hype around AI extinction rhetoric.
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