Bill Gurley dismisses AI doomers: 'COVID happened and 6 years later we still don't know the root cause'
whurley · x · 2026-09-16
Investor Bill Gurley pushed back on AI doomers on the All In podcast: "Don't tell me about AI doomers who are worried about what a chatbot might do. COVID happened and 6 years later we still don't know the root cause of what happened." He used the pandemic's unresolved origins to argue that predictions of AI catastrophe are overblown.
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