Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong rebuts AI doomers: slowing AI guarantees more preventable deaths
thederbiedone · x · 2026-09-22
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong pushed back on AI doomer arguments, saying they have it backwards: 165,000+ people already die every day from cancer, heart disease, and car crashes — problems AI is helping solve. Slowing AI progress doesn't keep us safer, he argues, it guarantees more preventable deaths.
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