Researcher: the real AI risk isn't progress, it's the society receiving it
generativist · x · 2026-09-23
Ruxandra Teslo argues she is not a doomer about AI progress itself, but about the state of the institutions and society it arrives in — a mix of nihilism, low trust and stupidity. Her proposed remedy is to work on fixing those institutions so technology can be harnessed for beneficial purposes, while admitting how hard that looks. Generativist shared the take.
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