AI scholar says threats in 6 months exceed last decade as his AGI warning turns mainstream
LeviTurk · x · 2026-10-30
AI scholar @danfaggella says he has received more threats of violence on X in the past six months than in the previous ten years, even though his message hasn't changed. A decade ago his ideas were dismissed as sci-fi, two years ago seen as maybe possible in 80 years, and now regarded as genuinely plausible: that the process of life could move beyond man, ending humans' role as the sole locus of volition and moral value. Interlocutors urged him not to be intimidated by the backlash.
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