'I'd rather be killed by a Chinese model': AI safety discourse's dark joke of the day
fitzr1189 · x · 2026-09-11
Asked whether discourse understates or overstates mass-death risk from AI, researcher moultano replied with deadpan dark humor: 'I'd feel a lot better being killed by a Chinese model because there's less I could have done to prevent it. More dignified. Fewer regrets.' — a sardonic jab at US-China AI race narratives and doomer discourse.
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