Is the AI panic actually a sign the scaling paradigm is hitting its limits?
nikvassev · x · 2026-09-13
The post connects recent industry signals: researchers quitting, an Anthropic researcher citing >10% decade-scale extinction risk, Dario Amodei calling to slow down, Sam Altman agreeing the frontier needs pacing, and even Elon Musk concurring.
The author's thesis: the noise may point beyond AI safety to the current scaling paradigm nearing its limits — years of gains from more compute, data and money may be ending, and we still don't fully understand why these systems work.
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