Reddit debate: why AI's pDoom wouldn't pass airline-safety standards
East-Firefighter8377 · reddit · 2026-10-22
Reddit user East-Firefighter8377 uses an aviation analogy to frame AI risk: if one in a hundred planes crashed, with hundreds of lives at stake each time, nobody would fly. AI's potential fallout affects billions, so even a pDoom of 0.0001% wouldn't be acceptable — yet most arguments put the real probability higher. The poster asks why the world isn't panicking and demanding a stop, sparking discussion on risk thresholds and collective action problems.
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