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Comment by Milton Mueller
Professor at Georgia Tech School of Public Policy; internet governance scholar and co-founder of the Internet Governance Project
Computer scientists often aren't good judges of the social and political implications of technology. They are so focused on the AI's mechanisms and are overwhelmed by its success, but they are not very good at placing it into a social and historical context. [...] The spectre of an autonomous, all-powerful AGI distracts us from the real governance problems and distorts our conception of policy options. If our threat model is unrealistic, our policy responses are certain to be wrong.
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(2026)
1mo ago
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Source URL on iac.gatech.edu returns 403 to WebFetch, but web search confirms the exact quote text appears in multiple syndicated coverage of Milton Mueller's January 2026 Georgia Tech research ("All-Powerful AI Isn't an Existential Threat"). Author attribution is solid — Mueller is Professor at Georgia Tech School of Public Policy and the named author of the underlying paper "AGI: the illusion that distorts and distracts digital governance." Vote "against" on "AI poses an existential threat to humanity" aligns precisely — Mueller's whole argument is that the existential threat narrative is misplaced and distorts policy. Verified.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 1d ago
replying to Milton Mueller