AI and the risk of catastrophe

Isn't it wild that we've reached a situation where people who are most ❊pro❊ AI say “this technology we love and build has like a 10% chance of killing us all” and the people who are ❊anti❊ AI reply “there's no way this figure is correct, it's inflated out of proportion”? — Gro-Tsen (@gro_tsen) September 26, 2026 I am reminded of an episode from history involving Bertrand Russell and the U.S. writer and editor Leo Rosten. In the early 1950s, Rosten had approached Russell in London to write an article on agnosticism for Look magazine. The resulting piece was published in November 1953. A couple decades later, in February 1974, Rosten recalled his conversations with Russell in an essay titled ‘Bertrand Russell and God: A Memoir’ in The Saturday Review. They contained one amusing exchange: Rosten asked Russell to suppose that Russell had died only to find himself in heaven, standing before god. What would he say? “I probably would ask,” Russell said, “‘Sir, why did you not give me better…

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