AI Doom as the New Climate Catastrophe
Oren Cass has a very smart essay on how to respond to the AI doom scenarios with what we’ve learned from the environmental catastrophists:
The experts and activists, focused on the technical reality of global temperatures or LLM capabilities as a direct proxy for risk and damage, see the only response as mitigation. In the climate context, this means reducing greenhouse gas emissions to slow the rise in temperatures. In the AI context, it would mean slowing the progress of model capabilities. Those........
