Robin Hanson says AI will stay 'normal tech' with no foom; critics push back
pwlot · x · 2026-10-01
Economist Robin Hanson argued AI will look like a normal technology and won't suddenly foom in the next few years. Reply pwlot countered that this prediction 'will age very poorly'—AI is not normal tech, and if any technology could foom by its very nature, it's AI. A representative exchange between boom-skeptic and rapid-takeoff camps.
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