Cambridge AI safety prof delighted by Terminator one-liner used to pitch AI risk to Americans
DavidSKrueger · x · 2026-11-09
Cambridge AI safety researcher David Krueger shared and appreciated a message to US politician Troy Jackson that framed AI risk with a Terminator line — "We're not that far from Terminator, and I don't want to be 'hasta la vista, baby'" — as an effective way to talk to Americans about AI risk. A light but telling anecdote about how safety researchers pitch existential risk to the public.
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