Steven Pinker calls AI founders' existential threat talk a "smokescreen"
sapinker · x · 2026-10-26
Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker argues in a New Statesman podcast interview that AI founders' existential risk rhetoric is a "smokescreen." He says they have been "much less willing to face up to the responsibility" of concrete harms like preventing bioterrorism, rather than sci-fi doomsday narratives.
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