UChicago AI panel: Doomsday Clock at 85 seconds, experts agree race-now-guardrails-later is risky
WillRinehart · x · 2026-09-15
A University of Chicago IOP panel on AI's promise and peril featured researchers Sasha Zharov and Will Rinehart alongside physicist Daniel Holz.
- Holz invoked the Doomsday Clock, now at 85 seconds to midnight, to stress urgency
- Havlicek struck a "doom and gloom" tone; Rinehart called himself the least negative of the group
- All panelists agreed that racing now and adding guardrails later is a risky path
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