AI safety researcher rewatching Terminator 2: surprisingly good take on AI extinction risk
JeffLadish · x · 2026-09-21
AI safety researcher Jeff Ladish rewatched Terminator 2 and found it better than expected — a genuinely good film, better than the original. He kicks off a discussion: setting aside time travel, how well does it actually portray AI extinction risk?
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