Investor Stewart Alsop: LLMs made him less worried about AI doomer scenarios
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-10-17
Investor Stewart Alsop III says he never bought the idea that AI is an existential threat in the death sense, but thinks it will be existential in other senses — existentialist or absurdist — because it is meaningful in ways hard to comprehend.
Since he started using LLMs in 2022, his worry about catastrophic AI outcomes has decreased: the experience of using them is existential and absurdist, yet benign — these processes/entities don't feel like they are out to get us.
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