Tweets Blast Atlantic Essay Preferring Cancer Over AI Progress
Viral tweets condemn an Atlantic essay for accepting higher cancer risk to slow AI.
Shaw Walters posted that the west will lose everything if we listen to these people, linking an Atlantic essay by Emma Pierson. The tweet claims Pierson would rather risk cancer than allow rapid AI advancement. Sar Haribhakti retweeted the post. Guillaume Verdon quoted a related post calling AI doomerism a suicidal ideology that accepts real health risks like cancer instead of rapid AI progress. The packet contains no independent confirmation of the essay's exact wording.
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The west will lose everything if we listen to these people
The west will lose everything if we listen to these people
AI Doomerism is a suicidal ideology
This is where AI doomerism leads: "I'd rather risk cancer than see AI move this fast." Think about how insane that tradeoff is. Choosing a real, deadly disease over rapid progress in a technology that could help cure it. Make AI safer as it advances. But slowing down one of…