A different perspective: giving up on AI means aging will almost certainly kill us all
smith2008 · reddit · 2026-10-08
The author reframes AI existential risk: nearly everyone will die of aging absent extraordinary scientific breakthroughs, and without advanced AI those breakthroughs are vanishingly unlikely to arrive in time. AI might kill us, but without it aging almost certainly will. Why is one risk treated as an existential emergency while the other is accepted as the natural order?
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