Toby Walsh: AI doomers overstate paperclip risk—reality has too much friction
TobyWalsh · x · 2026-09-26
AI researcher Toby Walsh pushes back on doomer scenarios of AI turning the world into paperclip factories. His argument: even very intelligent agents face enormous friction when trying to impose their will on the world. He frames today's data centres as the real-world embodiment of the paperclip factory—and notes, pleasingly, that humans are already pushing back.
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