Researcher mocks doom numbers: I give 10% odds of human extinction if we pause frontier AI
JJitsev · x · 2026-09-20
JJitsev (LAION researcher) satirizes the trend of shooting out arbitrary numbers to push AI doom narratives. Flipping the script, he offers his own: roughly a 10% probability of a human extinction event in the next decade if open frontier AI research and development is paused — a tongue-in-cheek jab at extinction-risk forecasting culture.
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