AI Doomerism
topic on 3 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes
American Optimist 
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the a16z Podcast
5 statements about AI Doomerism, every show
Andreessen: A lot of AI doomerism is paid for by dark money
“We know that there's dark money in AI. Like a lot of the AI doomerism stuff is basically bought and paid for.”
Sankar: AI developers lack special insight into AI's societal impacts
“Today, when we listen to the AI doomerism, we're listening to the inventors who are incredibly smart, but just like their creations, they have their own jagged intelligence. You know, just because they were smart at building the model doesn't mean they're goin…”
Sacks: AI doomerism narrative will be discredited within a few years
“I suspect that's where we'll be with AI dumerism in a few years, but in the meantime, it's a really good narrative to kind of take the place of the climate dumerism.”
Prakash: AI discourse is overly dominated by sci-fi-informed doomerism
“I think we have had this Very you know, sort of a doomerism view of it really kind of informed by science fiction, you know, dystopian science fiction and Terminator, and I don't think we have a kind of a positive or a realistic, really framework coming from, …”
Andreessen: Superintelligence leads to creation and exploration, not malice
“Once you're at, like, super genius level, like, I don't know, maybe there's a handful of, like, real life, like, Luthers in the world, but, like, once you're at super genius level, like, you have better things to do than, like, go around and try to kill a bunc…”