Musk: AGI risk far exceeds nuclear weapons, as doomer-verse debates shift
Linahuaa · x · 2026-09-12
Elon Musk says AGI carries significantly higher risk than nuclear weapons, arguing even very smart humans struggle to imagine something vastly smarter. Commenter Linahuaa claims Musk remains privately a doomer but stays quiet because his fanbase has turned rabidly anti-doomer, tracing the shift to Dario citing doomer concerns to withhold a frontier model from ordinary users.
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