John Carmack slams big-lab doomers: "If you believe in risk, work in the open"
beffjezos · x · 2026-09-12
- John Carmack quoted former Hugging Face CTO Julien Chaumonde's rationale for staying at an AI lab ("I can do better at reducing risks from the inside") and called it insane: anyone who believes in non-null existential risk should be working in the open, publishing and documenting everything.
- Carmack described the "hypocrisy levels / mental gymnastics" of big-lab doomers as extreme — the latest flashpoint in the internal-reform vs. open-transparency debate within AI safety circles.
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