AI doom prediction is the safest career in tech, argues skeptic: unfalsifiable either way
VraserX · x · 2026-10-26
VraserX argues that predicting AI doom is an unfalsifiable career: if nothing happens, you credit your warnings; if things go wrong, you claim you predicted it; and if AI makes the world dramatically better, you simply push the apocalypse another five years out. A pointed critique of the doomsayer rhetorical position in AI discourse.
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