Turing's 1951 machine takeover warning cited in spat over AI extinction risk
JMannhart · x · 2026-09-16
A debate on AI extinction risk: the poster quotes Alan Turing's 1951 prediction that once machine thinking started, machines would quickly outstrip human intellect and might eventually take control. Pushing back on Bryan Cantrill's dismissal, the poster notes all three of the most-cited AI researchers now publicly voice extinction concerns, arguing the risk can no longer be waved away without a real argument.
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