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AI doomers like Yudkowsky, Bostrom and effective altruists are not grifters but are sincerely wrong, and their warnings feed the same growth story that money depends on
The sting is that Becker thinks the doomers are sincere. Yudkowsky, Bostrom and the effective altruists are not grifters, he says, just wrong, and their warnings that AI could end the world feed the same growth story the money depends on.
Machine Learning Street Talk28 Aug 2026