DeepMind researcher hopes AI existential risk talk becomes tomorrow's Y2K joke
RosieCampbell · x · 2026-10-03
Rosie Campbell, a researcher at Google DeepMind, tweets her hope that one day people will joke about AI existential risk the way they joke about Y2K — envisioning a future where society sails through and the fears look overblown. A wry one-liner on how AI risk narratives might age, with the built-in irony that a ridiculed alarm would actually be the good ending.
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