Rob Leclerc: AI doomsday talk repeats the Malthusian error — tech will solve its own problems
robleclerc · x · 2026-09-23
Rob Leclerc weighed in against AI doom narratives, arguing the Malthusian mistake was failing to see that new technology helps solve our problems — and we're making the same error with AI: it will create new problems, but we'll use it to solve them. The quoted post calls the jump from "AI can hack websites" to "AI will wipe out humanity" a textbook slippery slope fallacy lacking evidence or mechanisms.
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