Scoble pushes back on AI doomers: 'Databases were used in the Holocaust too'
Scobleizer · x · 2026-10-25
Robert Scoble argues AI doomers ignore the good too much: databases were used in the Holocaust, cars kill 1.2M people a year, yet both remain ubiquitous. He cites Ray Fernando's Grok bot concierge that finds gluten-free-safe restaurants for a celiac patient as an example of AI's practical good, and notes he runs his own Grok bot to monitor worsening cybersecurity risks. His thesis: maximize the good, minimize the bad.
More from AGI Musings
- State of AI Report 2026: the frontier is now a three-lab race between Anthropic, OpenAI and Google — nathanbenaich · 2026-10-25
- Benchmarks should penalize misalignment, not ambiguity — environment fidelity over prompt over-specification — nirmal_dist · 2026-10-25
- Researcher Slams 'Humans as Toxoplasmosis to Alien Superintelligence' Narrative — generativist · 2026-10-25
- Engineer's take: our job has always been converting out-of-distribution ideas into in-distribution combinatorials — tobowers · 2026-10-25
- Beff Jezos: e/acc is memetically optimal because knowing the meme boosts fitness — beffjezos · 2026-10-25
- Kolmogorov-LLM complexity: rate a talk by the prompt length needed to recreate it — xennygrimmato_ · 2026-10-25