Fields Medalist admits he was consistently wrong on AI risk predictions
inductionheads · x · 2026-09-18
- Fields Medalist James Maynard: he long dismissed AI predictions as sci-fi but has been "consistently wrong" — the people who sounded like sci-fi made far more accurate predictions, and AI risk is "an emergency that should not be dismissed as hype."
- The poster counters with Ray Kurzweil's 9-year-old take: "AI is not going to displace us, it's going to enhance us. It does already."
- A snapshot of the AI-risk debate: the skeptic converting versus the optimist holding firm.
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