Skipping From Hugging Face to Extinction 'Is Not Going to Happen'
JoshPurtell · x · 2026-09-14
Josh Purtell doubles down: the Hugging Face incident caused OpenAI real problems, and a Fukushima-level event would almost certainly end the company responsible and trigger a broad pause — so doomers must expect a leap from small to extinction-scale disaster, which he finds untenable.
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