Penn Student Paper Debunks 'AI Kills Us by 2030' Claim, Sparking Debate
BlackHC · x · 2026-09-17
A reply to Gary Marcus praising the Penn student newspaper's debunking of the latest 'AI is going to kill us by 2030' psyop — noting that the article's list of other concerns mostly stands, and half of it would have sounded like sci-fi five years ago.
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