How does the preoccupation with long-term AI extinction scenarios distract us from examining the harms of current AI business practices?
Focusing exclusively on the "doomsday" scenario creates a mental shortcut. By treating AI safety as a technical engineering puzzle—one that requires better alignment algorithms or more compute—we treat the danger as a mathematical glitch. This framing functions as a form of techno-solutionism. It suggests that if we simply solve the
