Pedro Domingos mocks AI doomers over Medicare bot 'unauthorized access' panic
pmddomingos · x · 2026-09-25
Notable ML researcher Pedro Domingos sarcastically remarks that a bot accessing Australia's Medicare Statistics Reporting Service data — which wasn't password-protected — 'proving AI extinction is imminent,' mocking doomer narratives that inflate ordinary crawler-style data access into existential threats.
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