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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/04/2026

In short, I worry that AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into our civilization's walls, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations: pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1... 16/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/04/2026

But Bengio disagrees. He's very smart, and very accomplished, and he's *very* certain that AI is about to become "superhuman" and do horrible things to us if we don't get a handle on it. 17/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/04/2026

Several times at our events, he insisted that the existence of this *possibility* made it wildly irresponsible *not* to take measures to mitigate this risk. Though I didn't say so at the time, this struck me as an AI-inflected version of Pascal's wager: 18/

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