Pedro Domingos Mocks AI Doomers: They Started at the Deep End and Kept Going
pmddomingos · x · 2026-10-08
Pedro Domingos, prominent ML professor, took a jab at AI doomers: "They didn't go off the deep end because that's where they started (and then kept going)."
The quip continues his long-standing criticism of AI existential-risk discourse, framing doomers as having held extreme positions from the start and kept escalating.
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