Steven Pinker boosts takedown of AI doom scenarios: 'preposterous' and fatally distracting
sapinker · x · 2026-09-27
Steven Pinker retweeted Claire Lehmann's argument that AI-kill-us-all scenarios are preposterous, and that presuming inevitability only breeds fatalism and panic while distracting from more mundane, realistic safety challenges. A notable public intellectual openly pushing back on AI doom narratives.
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