Timothy Lee: Valley elites who excel at narrow tasks may misjudge AI doom scenarios
binarybits · x · 2026-09-16
Asked why smart people like Paul Christiano believe in AI doom, @binarybits (Timothy Lee) argues that people who have spent their careers only thinking about AI may not grasp the complexity of social systems.
In Silicon Valley, wealth and power flow to those best at narrow tasks like programming and product design, he says — and such people tend to underestimate how different other communities, like the military, actually are, skewing doom predictions.
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