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Harvard psychologist calls for sober AI safety engineering over doomsday rhetoric

Steven Pinker thinks fears of AI-driven extinction are overblown, and he has turned down a public debate with blogger Scott Alexander, calling such events a "spectator sport." Alexander puts the odds that AI wipes out humanity at 20 percent. Instead of doomsday rhetoric, Pinker wants sober safety e…

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  1. 2026-09-28 15:32 · The Decoder
    Harvard psychologist calls for sober AI safety engineering over doomsday rhetoric

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