Ex-OpenAI researcher Scott Aaronson: AI doom and salvation are both real possibilities
Tsubame33785667 · x · 2026-10-26
A Japanese long post quotes former OpenAI researcher Scott Aaronson: dismiss the 'AI is all a scam / stochastic parrots' take as too cynical — today's AI genuinely works, and people decades ago would have called it intelligence. Creating a novel form of intelligence is inherently unsafe (like parenting, but with no biological common ground), and both catastrophic and benevolent-god outcomes are realistic. 'We live in the sci-fi world now.'
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