AI safety researcher: burden of proof belongs on accelerationists, not doomers
DavidSKrueger · x · 2026-10-13
Quoting economist Dean Baker: the burden of proof shouldn't be on AI doomers to explain how AI might kill everybody — it should be on accelerationists to explain why creating something much smarter than us that we can't control wouldn't be incredibly dangerous. Cambridge AI researcher David Krueger agrees, adding that policymakers have been getting this backwards.
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