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American economist, writer, and commentator on technology and economic policy.
I have gotten a lot more worried about existential, catastrophic AI risk — the kind of thing that would kill us instead of just rendering us comfortably impotent — than I was three years ago.
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Noah Smith, “Looks like AI is an existential threat after all,” Asia Times, February 16, 2026.
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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
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AI Verified Verified against the cited source (https://asiatimes.com/2026/02/looks-like-ai-is-an-existential-threat-after-all/); wording and attribution match the source record. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 23min ago
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