If Top Mathematicians and AI Scientists Aren't Credible AI-Risk Voices, Who Is?
UnderstandingThin40 · reddit · 2026-09-19
A Reddit discussion asks: if top mathematicians, leading AI scientists, and former senior lab employees aren't considered credible when they warn about AI risks, whose testimony would be? The poster asks what kind of figure would make people say "ok, if they say it, we have to take it seriously," with commenters debating what authority actually counts.
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