Eli Lifland pins warning: increasingly concerned about near-term AI catastrophe
eli_lifland · x · 2026-10-11
Eli Lifland said he hopes he's wrong about all of it, but as AI develops he has been feeling increasingly viscerally concerned about the near-term catastrophic risk from AI development. He pinned the thread to make his concern explicit, acknowledging the probabilities are highly subjective but arguing that concrete numbers communicate risk more precisely than avoiding them.
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