Doom or Bloom
Question 1
What do you think AI means for our future—and why?
AI could mean an extraordinary future of better medicine, education and scientific discovery—or it could mean humanity losing control of its own future. The decisive question is whether we build AI as a controllable tool or race toward autonomous superintelligence that can outthink, outmaneuver and ultimately replace us.
I am optimistic about the first path and fiercely opposed to the second. We do not normally let companies release airplanes, medicines or nuclear reactors on the promise that they will probably be safe. Yet with increasingly powerful AI, companies are effectively being allowed to grade their own homework while racing one another toward systems they may not be able to control. Voluntary assurances are not a safety regime.
This race is a political choice, not a law of nature. Governments can require developers to demonstrate safety before deployment and halt systems that cannot meet that standard. They can prohibit fully autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, preserve meaningful human control and prevent a handful of corporations from seizing enormous economic and political power.
So I reject the false choice between technological progress and safety. We can build powerful tools that help humanity without building our replacements. The absurd gamble is risking everything for capabilities we neither need nor know how to control.
