Ex-US AI Envoy Rumman Chowdhury Pushes Back on AI Doom Narratives
math_rachel · x · 2026-10-11
Mathematician Rachel shares a Rolling Stone piece by Rumman Chowdhury, former U.S. Science Envoy for AI under the Biden Administration. After a decade in responsible AI, Chowdhury rejects doomer rhetoric: she calls the recent unsubstantiated claim that AI could kill us all by decade's end unfounded, and argues both the build-at-all-costs camp and the safety-from-'AI-gone-rogue' camp share a patronizing tone — as if heroes and villains can only come from the tech community itself.
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