Domingos: The biggest AI catastrophe skeptics are cybersecurity and bio experts
pmddomingos · x · 2026-09-16
Pedro Domingos, ML researcher and professor at UW, observes that the strongest skeptics of AI catastrophe scenarios tend to be experts in the very fields involved — cybersecurity, bio and the like — implying those who best understand these risks are the least convinced of AI doom.
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