Jon Stokes: AI safety alarmism is really sweeping claims about humans, not machines
nptacek · x · 2026-09-12
Tech writer Jon Stokes argues that alarmist claims from the AI safety community present themselves as narrow, highly technical claims about machine capabilities, but are in fact the broadest possible nontechnical claims about human capabilities.
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