UnHerd essay: AI doomerism's proposed controls would be dystopian surveillance
DrTechlash · x · 2026-10-23
A new UnHerd essay by Nirit Weiss-Blatt argues AI doomerism has turned philosophical thought experiments into proposals for mass surveillance of researchers, while journalists ignore these human control systems. Using this week's PHP critical flaws—found with AI's help before criminals could exploit them—it contends real AI risk is cybercrime, not sentient machines, and AI is also the antidote.
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