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Harvard psychologist calls for sober AI safety engineering over doomsday rhetoric

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Harvard psychologist calls for sober AI safety engineering over doomsday rhetoric

The Decoder · Sep 28, 2026, 3:32 PM UTC

Steven Pinker thinks fears of AI-driven extinction are overblown, and he has turned down a public debate with blogger Scott Alexander, calling such events a "spectator sport." Alexander puts the odds that AI wipes out humanity at 20 percent.…