AI Doom Skeptics Hit Back: EA-Driven Apocalypse Talk Doesn't Reflect Most Top-Tier Researchers
GarrisonLovely · x · 2026-09-11
A running debate over AI existential risk: @UnpopScience argues that the computer scientists he publishes with dismiss 'AI apocalypse' talk, calling it a long-running effective altruism fixation that predates LLMs and a 'delusion of self-importance' that sells well to venture capital.
Garrison Lovely counters by pointing to survey data on AI researchers who have published at top conferences, suggesting most do not hold doom-heavy views — pushing back on the narrative that the research community broadly fears existential risk.
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