ML pioneer Michael I. Jordan calls AI doom rhetoric a 'grand moralizing performance'
The Decoder · rss · 2026-10-14
Michael I. Jordan, described by Science as 'the most influential computer scientist,' dismisses superintelligence warnings as pure science fiction. He calls young AI researchers' resignations a 'grand moralizing performance' and companies' regulatory demands 'theater.' On Hinton's thesis that the brain can be reproduced in silicon and scaled into superintelligence: 'None of the steps in this argument is credible.'
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