Rumman Chowdhury: I've Worked in AI for a Decade and I'm Not Scared of It
AlexTensor · x · 2026-10-12
Rumman Chowdhury, former US AI Envoy under Biden, pushes back on AI doomerism in Rolling Stone. She calls a viral Anthropic researcher's extinction claim unsubstantiated, argues the doomer mindset has become an archetype of today's tech culture, and mocks EA circles earnestly debating whether sunscreen matters if AI kills everyone.
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