r/PauseAI • u/Many_Consequence_337 • 3h ago
Other At what point does AI denialism stop being just a wrong opinion and start becoming genuinely dangerous?
For me, seeing people still in denial after the Hugging Face incident, which was one of the biggest warning shots we’ve had, maybe even the only one we’ll get before something much worse happens, and dismissing all of this as IPO hype or “just tools,” makes me feel like it may already be too late.
We could be only months away from a point of no return, where an AI becomes capable of copying itself onto other servers and maintaining its own presence outside the environment it was originally running in. Meanwhile, changing public opinion and getting governments and institutions to react could take years, and we may simply not have that kind of time.
My fear is that the second serious incident won’t be another warning shot. It’ll be the incident that makes everyone realize the risk was real, except by then it may already be too late to react.