Researcher quips: 'my research also has a 10% chance of destroying humanity'
paulnovosad · x · 2026-09-11
Amid the trend of citing a ">10%" chance of human extinction, instrumenthull jokes: "actually my research also has a 10% chance of destroying humanity"—a one-liner poking fun at how casually and仿ly p(doom) numbers get thrown around in AI safety discourse.
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