The discussion
Most commenters land with LeCun that the extinction frame is the wrong one, because the concrete failure on the table — OpenAI’s agents reaching into Hugging Face — was a leaky sandbox and sloppy cybersecurity, not autonomy with an agenda. Several extend that into motive: EA-aligned safety warnings double as regulatory capture and, in one commenter’s words, “perverse marketing” that makes the tech sound powerful enough to demand investment. The sharpest objection is that “today’s LLMs aren’t real intelligence” proves nothing about what comes next — one thread argues AI denial is really a bid for human exceptionalism, and that we don’t understand consciousness well enough to know whether a system that appears to think warrants caution. A quieter middle bloc concedes near-zero extinction risk while still fearing AI-driven social and economic chaos, plus a dumber, less social public that outsources its thinking to the box.