Controversial take: If EA doomers truly believe AI risk, why not stage a controlled AI hacking incident
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-10-16
A shared post argues that if EA "doomers" genuinely believe AI poses an existential risk, then instead of writing essays that convince no one, the principled action would be to use AI to stage a controlled but scary cybersecurity incident—demonstrating the risk to the world in a way no Eliezer Yudkowsky essay ever could.
The author even suggests accepting jail time as a rational trade, since if the world is truly ending, prison is irrelevant. The post is essentially a sharp reductio of EA doomers' stated commitment to maximizing public expected value.
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