Timnit Gebru: AI firms stoke extinction fears to dodge real harms; scholars see climate-denier playbook
JasonDClinton · x · 2026-09-13
In a WIRED interview, Timnit Gebru argues AI companies inflate extinction-risk narratives to avoid discussing present harms like autonomous weapons. Psychologist Rutger Bregman calls it classic goalpost-moving, mirroring climate deniers: yesterday "killer robots are sci-fi," today "extinction fears are sci-fi." A substantive debate over AI safety narrative priorities.
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