Physicist on AI risk: we build it like 1940s reactors, but with no conservation laws
AryHHAry · x · 2026-09-15
A physicist argues the wrong question is "will AI kill us all?" — the right one is "do we understand the physics of what we're building?" Top AI builders publicly say the technology could kill us within the decade, yet keep coding the next morning, just like nuclear engineers in the 1940s who knew the criticality risks but built anyway. The crucial difference: reactors have conservation laws, AI doesn't.
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