Viral thread: people fear hypothetical AI doom but ignore Nobel-winning AI drug discovery
TinfoilTricorn · x · 2026-09-28
A widely shared post pushes back on AI doomerism: people never say "cancer will kill us all" because it's too real a fear, yet they embrace hypothetical AI extinction talk. When researchers explain AI helps make drugs for cancer and heart disease — work the Nobel committee has recognized — critics refuse to learn the science and call it bullshit. Hypothetical AI fears are less scary than one's own mortality.
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