AI researcher Pedro Domingos' airport joke about an 'exterminate humanity' symposium
pmddomingos · x · 2026-10-04
Pedro Domingos, author of The Master Algorithm, shared an airport exchange: when he told a barista he was heading to an AI symposium in Frankfurt on 'how to exterminate humanity,' she deadpanned, 'Yeah, we know that.' The satirical anecdote pokes fun at the pervasiveness of AI doom discourse.
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