"Nobody mocked cybersecurity risks — we mocked mass-unemployment doomers"
AlexTensor · x · 2026-10-24
Responding to AI safety discourse, seanfromearth argues no serious person mocked AI's cybersecurity risks.
What people did mock, he says, are the people and labs claiming AI would cause mass unemployment or kill everyone — narratives he argues distracted attention from actual, very fixable threats like software vulnerabilities.
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