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AI Critics Called Cassandras, or Something Worse
Original: A Cassandra is someone who warns about bad future events other people are manifesting. An abuser warns about bad future
A debate is circulating over who counts as a Cassandra — someone warning about bad future events others are bringing about — versus an abuser, who warns about harm they themselves are causing. The argument turns this framing on the TESCREAL camp, a loose group of thinkers focused on existential AI risk, suggesting their dire warnings about artificial intelligence may describe dangers they are creating rather than preventing.
Why now: Ongoing tensions over AI doom rhetoric and whether prominent AI-risk advocates help cause the dangers they warn about.
Evidence
- A Cassandra is someone who warns about bad future events other people are manifesting. An abuser warns about bad future events _they_ are manifesting. See if you can figure out which one the # TESCREAL folks are? # AI · jik@federate.social · 2
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