Domingos mocks AI-ban logic: criminals use Microsoft Word, should we ban it too?
pmddomingos · x · 2026-09-12
AI researcher Pedro Domingos sarcastically mocked calls to ban AI: "Seeing how many criminals use Microsoft Word, it must be urgently banned."
His point: blaming a general-purpose tool for criminal misuse is absurd—Word and AI alike are tools, and the problem lies with the user, not the technology.
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