LAION researcher: pausing open frontier AI carries ~10% human extinction risk this decade
JJitsev · x · 2026-09-20
LAION researcher JJitsev pushed back on calls to pause frontier AI, self-mockingly tossing out his own arbitrary number: he assigns 10% probability to a human extinction event in the next decade if open frontier AI R&D is paused. Instead of pausing, he argues, compute used by closed labs should be redistributed to open-source research — with high priority on tasks like "curing cancer." A pointed entry in the ongoing open-source vs. AI-safety pause debate.
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