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Comment by Steven Pinker
Cognitive scientist and author
There’s nothing inherent in being smart that turns a system into a genocidal maniac. [...] But this is not Artificial Intelligence: it’s Artificial Stupidity.AI Verified source (2024)
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Verified. The 2024 City Journal article "Something Like Fire" (published March 3, 2024) contains both sentences attributed to Steven Pinker: “There’s nothing inherent in being smart that turns a system into a genocidal maniac” and later, “But this is not Artificial Intelligence: it’s Artificial Stupidity.” ([city-journal.org](https://www.city-journal.org/article/something-like-fire/)) The attribution is further supported by a March 17, 2023 published email exchange in which Pinker himself uses those same lines, so the ellipsis represents omitted intervening text rather than alteration. ([richardhanania.com](https://www.richardhanania.com/p/pinker-on-alignment-and-intelligence))
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