By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/04/2026But 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/ 1430
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/04/2026Several 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/ 1621
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/04/2026> A rational person should adopt a lifestyle consistent with the existence of God and should strive to believe in God... if God does not exist, the believer incurs only finite losses, potentially sacrificing certain pleasures and luxuries... 19/ 2410
