Masad: Eliezer Yudkowsky's AI extinction arguments rely on flawed logic
Amjad Masad · How vibe coding changes who gets to build (Replit CEO Amajad Masad & Reid Hoffman) | Possible · Jan 31, 2026 · at 49:09
Replit CEO Amjad Masad dismisses extreme AI existential risk arguments on the Possible podcast.
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“I don't think anything that Eliezer Rutkowski read, for example Eliezer Rutkowski, big AI, maybe he doesn't describe himself as a Doomer, I would say AI Doomer, wrote a lot about how AI could end the world and kill literally everyone. Like, I can't, like, you know, every, every time you try to read some of those, like, there's insane loops in logic, and really it doesn't compute for me, like, how that actually That ends up happening, and I think it's like a fundamental misunderstanding of the world.”
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