Domingos: math ability somehow doesn't correlate with ability to seize power
pmddomingos · x · 2026-09-13
Pedro Domingos, prominent ML professor at UW, quipped that the ability to solve math problems does not highly correlate with the ability to seize power — a jab at narratives that extrapolate benchmark performance into AI takeover risk scenarios.
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