An AI Rant

A software engineer pushes back on claims from AI leaders that advanced AI poses a high risk of human extinction, arguing that figures like Anthropic's Evan Hubinger and Dario Amodei offer no evidence or modeling behind their 10% and 25% estimates. He contends the doomer narrative rests on speculative assumptions about superintelligence and questions the motives behind it, while warning that halting AI development would push the US and world economies into recession.