AI doomers may be wrong but the skeptics seem even wronger
The September 3rd piece was itself an update on an earlier piece I wrote in July, right after the Hugging Face attack was first revealed (a reveal that came weeks after the hack itself took place). The debate over AI safety and what AI researchers call “alignment” – or, to put it more bluntly, between whether AI is working as advertised or is going to lead to the extermination of life as we know it – has continued to intensify. One of the main triggers was a series of departures and/or warnings from some senior staffers at most of the major AI companies.
- ▪The September 3rd piece was itself an update on an earlier piece I wrote in July, right after the Hugging Face attack was first revealed (a reveal that came weeks after the hack itself took place).
- ▪The debate over AI safety and what AI researchers call “alignment” – or, to put it more bluntly, between whether AI is working as advertised or is going to lead to the extermination of life as we know it – has continued to intensify.
- ▪One of the main triggers was a series of departures and/or warnings from some senior staffers at most of the major AI companies.
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Posted on September 24, 2026 by Mathew IngramAI doomers may be wrong but the skeptics seem even wronger As regular readers will know, last week I re-published a piece that I originally wrote on September 3rd, entitled “Yes, we should be very worried about the Hugging Face hack.” I couldn’t write a new post for last week because I was backwoods camping in a remote area of southwestern Ontario – Killarney Provincial Park, in case you are interested – and I had virtually no cell signal for most of that time (if you like canoes or kayaks or sunsets or trees, you can check out the post I wrote about the trip).
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