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2026-05-22 02:29:41 UTC

Rafael Pérez ☀️ on Nostr: Quanta Magazine writer Amanda Gefter goes into how our tales of AI catastrophe might ...

Quanta Magazine writer Amanda Gefter goes into how our tales of AI catastrophe might say more about ourselves, than about large language models.

This resonates with an idea I keep returning to when faced with the daily onslaught of AI doomerism in Mastodon. Many people assume LLMs will act like a human would, for the better, but mostly for the worse.

"Why Do We Tell Ourselves Scary Stories About AI?"

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-do-we-tell-ourselves-scary-stories-about-ai-20260410/

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