Pedro Domingos: Slowing AI Down Is Mass Murder If It Cures All Diseases Within a Decade
pmddomingos · x · 2026-09-15
AI researcher and professor Pedro Domingos argues that if AI will truly cure all diseases within a decade, then any effort to slow it down amounts to mass murder. It is a stark restatement of the accelerationist 'delayed progress = lost lives' framing in the ongoing debate with AI safety advocates.
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