AI Doomers
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Andreessen: Utopians and doomers overestimate how quickly humans adapt to AI
“Both the AI utopians and the AI doomers are far too optimistic. You see what I'm saying? Because they believe that because the technology makes something possible, that eight billion people all of a sudden are going to change how they behave, and it's just lik…”
Huet: Former AI doomers admit the movement closely mirrors a doomsday cult
“And when I spoke to some people who had spent time really deep in the like Doomer mindset, they described it to me in their own words as a cult.
They said like, oh, it has a lot of parallels to a doomsday cult.”
Coogan: AI doomerism stems from fear of a judging AI God
“A lot of the AI doomers are fearful of a return of God. Have we talked about this? Basically this idea that they live degenerate lives that are highly incongruent with any sort of moral framework. And so, but they also believe God is dead. And so that's fine. …”
Evans: AI Doomers Wrongly Treat Harmful Computer Decisions as Novel
“Screwing up with a computer is not new. This is my point. Ruining people's lives. This is kind of the kind of mistake that the AI dealers make is like, we haven't had computers before. We've never before have we had computers that were making decisions and cou…”