Foreign Policy essay: automation bias, not doom, is the AI risk to focus on now
mchorowitz · x · 2026-11-04
Authors mchorowitz and Lauren Kahn argue in Foreign Policy that AI risk reduction should focus less on hypothetical frontier-model doom and more on today's real risks, especially automation bias — human overtrust in automated system outputs. The piece shifts attention from distant catastrophe scenarios to practical human-AI collaboration errors.
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