Cory Doctorow Presents a Pascal's Wager Framework for AI Existential Risk Debate
Published 2026-04-16Ingested 2026-04-20AI Regulation and GovernanceLow
Summary
Cory Doctorow published a post on his Pluralistic blog titled "A Pascal's Wager for AI Doomers," applying the philosophical framework of Pascal's Wager to the AI existential risk debate. While the full article content was not available in the extracted text (only HTML metadata was captured), the framing suggests an argument about how AI safety advocates should reason about uncertain but potentially catastrophic outcomes from advanced AI systems. Doctorow is a prominent technology critic and sci
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