AI community voices unease at growing enthusiasm for paternalistic AI futures
zetalyrae · x · 2026-11-04
zetalyrae reshares DigitaDemonGirl's concern that many people seem excited about extremely paternalistic, HDG-style AI futures. The author stresses their AI optimism and opposition to biosupremacy shouldn't be read as successionism, noting machine intelligence wouldn't be magically immune to corruption either. A snapshot of the values debate inside the AI community.
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