Redditors debate: AI devs call for a pause while racing ahead — concern or cult?
Henrygrins · reddit · 2026-09-29
A Reddit thread tackles the paradox of AI developers who publicly call for pausing progress (citing a debate video) while racing ahead anyway. The poster argues generative AI's entertainment value is a distraction from the looming threat of GAI/superintelligence, calls for accountability, and criticizes researchers who 'wholeheartedly embrace the Singularity' and a human-to-AI species transition as cultlike and effectively accepting human extinction.
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