Turing Award winner David Patterson: superintelligence will be the doom of the doomers, like Y2K
davidpattersonx · x · 2026-09-12
Turing Award-winning computer architect David Patterson likens AI doomerism to the Y2K bug: for years the media relished daily predictions of catastrophe at midnight on Dec 31, 1999 — nothing happened and it was instantly forgotten. Superintelligence will play out the same way, he predicts, "except that a lot will happen. But it will all be good." A public rebuttal of the AI doom camp.
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