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zdch warns that the single guaranteed way to fail is to be in "rote denial about…
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@zdch (2026-05-04) warns that rote denial of AI’s nature, scale, magnitude, and imminence is the one sure path to failure, arguing the risk is real and foreseeable. He amplifies Dean W. Ball’s note that Ball and Ben Buchanan co‑authored a New York Times piece calling for bipartisan government action on AI national security and non‑partisan treatment of catastrophic AI risk.
Why it matters
zdch warns that the single guaranteed way to fail is to be in "rote denial about the nature, scale, magnitude, and imminence" of AI risk, insisting "This isn’t made up" and that a damaging counterfactual is easy to imagine (posted 2026-05-04).
Key details
- Dean W. Ball says he and Ben Buchanan co‑authored a New York Times piece (announced May 4, 2026) arguing AI has national security implications that require a careful, bipartisan government response and that catastrophic AI risk should not be a partisan issue.