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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: A Pascal's Wager for AI Doomers (16 Apr 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/16/pascals-wager/
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"AI models have one undeniable virtue: the increase in speed and efficiency with which they can carry out tasks that were once the province of human beings. Language models can produce functional text for a wide range of contexts, while image generation models are giving us the capability to render into existence whatever image or video takes our fancy. This is widely taken as clear evidence of the benefits of AI. For Mumford, this type of thinking is precisely the problem. The myth of the machine is dehumanizing because it subordinates human values to machine values: speed and efficiency.
The most striking evidence of the myth’s cultural pervasiveness is that many avid accelerationists do not deny that AI could mean the end of humanity. They merely differ from the doomers in believing that this risk is necessary—even desirable—to achieve the spectacular increases in efficiency and productivity promised by AGI. Mumford foresaw this extreme endpoint. “The myth of the machine,” he wrote, “the basic religion of our present culture, has so captured the modern mind that no human sacrifice seems too great provided it is offered up to the insolent Marduks and Molochs of science and technology.”
Those branded as skeptics or doomers also still accept the premises of the myth of the machine. The stated aim of many organizations concerned with avoiding the worst AI outcomes is that we should “realize the benefits while mitigating the risks” of the technology. Mumford would argue the first half of this statement concedes too much, accepting the basic premise of the myth of the machine while presenting the task as removing the obstacles to realize its benefits. Many skeptics also share a basic misanthropic premise of machine superiority, focusing as they do on the biased, irrational, and flawed nature of human beings that needs machinic augmentation."
https://www.compactmag.com/article/ai-and-the-myth-of-the-machine/
#AI #Neoluddism #AIBoosters #AIHype #AIDoomers #GenerativeAI #Mumford #STS #MediaEcology
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Where did 2025 leave the AI doomers? MIT Tech Review talked to 20 people who study or advocate AI safety and governance—including #ACMTuringAward recipients Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio—to see if the recent setbacks and general vibe shift had altered their views.
While Geoffrey Hinton is not sure what’s coming, Yoshua Bengio wishes he’d seen the risks sooner.
Learn more: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1129171/the-ai-doomers-feel-undeterred/ #TechNews #AIdoomers
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#AI #AIDoomers #AGI #Accelerationism: "[H]istorically speaking, no group has done more to accelerate the race to build AGI than the AI doomers. The very people screaming that the AGI race is a runaway train barreling toward the cliff of extinction have played an integral role in starting these AI companies. Some have helped found these companies, while others provided crucial early funding that enabled such companies to get going. They wrote papers, books and blog posts that popularized the idea of AGI and organized conferences that inspired interest in the topic. Many of those worried that AGI will kill everyone on Earth have gone on to work for the leading AI companies, and indeed the two techno-cultural movements that initially developed and promoted the doomer narrative — namely, “Rationalism” and “Effective Altruism” — have been at the very heart of the AGI race since its inception.
In a phrase, the loudest voices within the AI doomer camp have been disproportionately responsible for launching and sustaining the very technological race that they now claim could doom humanity in the coming years. Despite their apocalyptic warnings of near-term annihilation, the doomers have in practice been more effective at accelerating AGI than the accelerationists themselves."
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Figure influenti e media contribuiscono alla diffusione di scenari apocalittici sull'Intelligenza Artificiale, e tutti abboccano. Facendo il loro gioco e impedendo un dibattito serio. Ma quanto e a chi conviene il "catastrofismo AI"?
#ai #aidoomers #intelligenzaartificiale #transumanismo #microchip #finestradioverton #marketing