Richard Socher: There is no realistic scenario where AI wipes out all of humanity
dilipkay · x · 2026-09-16
You.com founder Richard Socher argues extinction-level AI risk talk lacks science: many "experts" he's spoken with are phenomenal sci-fi authors, and when pressed for a detailed scenario that would kill every human, answers reduce to "look at progress and use your imagination" — gut-feel probabilities quantified post hoc. He still takes realistic, narrower AI harms seriously. Quoted: someone who has both trained a frontier LLM and synthesized custom viruses calls the AI-engineered-plague doomsday take bogus.
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