Why accelerate AI if your p(doom) is above zero? A practitioner asks
_arohan_ · x · 2026-09-21
arohan shares a conversation with a non-AI friend who is terrified of AI doom, then poses a pointed question: if your p(doom) > 0, why take part in accelerating research, training data, and training at labs? He concludes most practitioners implicitly assign near-zero doom probability — and challenges them to say so publicly if they truly believe p(doom)=0 for current models.
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