Everyone should slow down AI development except for me

Re:Everyone should slow down AI development except for me by Tanjreeve on Sunday September 13, 2026 @09:29AM (#49683777)

Funny you should try and spin the conversation off into climate change to avoid answering the question. Big AIs contribution to climate change likely has a much more tangible route to killing millions of people and destroying society and there's actual evidence and a tangible mechanism for that. But for some strange reason the business media and all the outlets owned by big AI investors aren't interested in long think pieces about that risk. But that would be a lot more credible if that's what all these social media posts about potential apocalypse were referring to

Yet here we are talking about some vague "trust me bro" instead and you making some vague insinuation of climate change denial.

But that's an aside. Do you think we should treat them as liars or threats?

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Re:Everyone should slow down AI development except for me by ben_w on Sunday September 13, 2026 @11:59AM (#49685448)

> Do you think we should treat them as liars or threats?

I answered that with the analogy you called "spin" and "avoiding the question", and completely misunderstood because "vague insinuation of climate change denial" is almost the exact opposite of my point ("what if the oil companies were screaming from the rooftops about the problem" is as far from denial as you can get).

Threats. Like they claim to be.

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