AI researcher in Washington Post: x-risk obsession distracts from real AI dangers
rao2z · x · 2026-09-23
rao2z was quoted in The Washington Post (reporter Nitasha Tiku), arguing that most AI existential-risk scenarios are blinkered and blind to human adaptability. He acknowledges real dangers — safety, controllability, monitorability, IP rights, disempowerment — but contends the excessive focus on hypothetical x-risk acts as an unwitting (if not calculated) distraction from those concrete issues.
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