Carissa Véliz: the future doesn't get predicted, it gets produced
CarissaVeliz · x · 2026-09-16
Oxford philosopher Carissa Véliz pushes back on recent tech-executive doomsday claims (e.g. >10% chance AI destroys humanity by 2030), urging readers to interrogate predictors' conflicts of interest and evidence, and noting that surveillance-and-prediction-based technology is itself a form of social control.
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