Academia dismisses AI as a hype bubble, poster warns of ignoring frontier capabilities
AcerFur · x · 2026-09-19
The poster laments that university peers and professors dismiss him as a victim of hype for believing AI is not a bubble about to pop. He worries academia is failing to keep up with current frontier AI capabilities, arguing people treat impending superintelligence with less seriousness than, say, intelligence agency capabilities — and will later claim it was unforeseeable.
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