François Fleuret mocks AI-bioweapon doomerism as 'grey goo in our sub-manifold'
francoisfleuret · x · 2026-10-23
Responding to Noah Smith's warning that "AI bioweapons are going to kill you, your children, your parents, and your friends," noted AI researcher François Fleuret quipped that an AI bioweapon would just be "grey goo spreading in that negligible sub-manifold where we are" — deflating doomer rhetoric with a mathematical perspective.
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