AI safety debate: those right on AI cyberattacks may be wrong on bioweapons
basedjensen · x · 2026-10-24
zetalyrae argues that people who correctly predicted AI-enabled cyberattacks may also be right about AI-enabled bioweapons. lumpenspace pushes back: the same community was wrong about nanobots, superpersuasion, AI psychosis, autonomous hacks, and grid-down scenarios, so its bioweapon track record is far from established. A sharp exchange on how much weight expert doom predictions deserve.
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