We Are All Going to Die (Just Not Necessarily Because of AI)
We Really Are All Going to Die (Just Not Necessarily Because of AI)AI deserves serious scrutiny. Models are better, cheaper (or are they? given that you’ll need the better and more compute intensive models) and more efficient. Agents can do things that seemed implausible a year ago, and some recent security incidents are genuinely worrying.But Amodei’s basic story hasn’t changed much.
- ▪We Really Are All Going to Die (Just Not Necessarily Because of AI)AI deserves serious scrutiny.
- ▪Models are better, cheaper (or are they? given that you’ll need the better and more compute intensive models) and more efficient.
- ▪Agents can do things that seemed implausible a year ago, and some recent security incidents are genuinely worrying.But Amodei’s basic story hasn’t changed much.
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| Publication time | Mon, 14 Sep 2026 23:40:01 +0000 |
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We Really Are All Going to Die (Just Not Necessarily Because of AI)AI deserves serious scrutiny. Apocalypse claims deserve serious and clear evidence (and a bit of more nuance).João ToméSep 14, 2026ShareSome AI conversations feel not only strangely repetitive, but also unnecessarily catastrophic, with exaggerations that I find somewhat suspicious and, more importantly, not particularly helpful.Dario Amodei has been warning us for years that extraordinarily powerful AI is coming extraordinarily soon, often without much nuance and with a little of Elon Musk’s taste for exaggeration thrown in. It could transform science, cure diseases, destroy huge numbers of jobs and, if things go badly enough, perhaps destroy us too.SubscribeTo be fair, AI has changed significantly even since late 2025.
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