An article argues that AI doomsaying about superintelligence and human extinction serves as aggressive marketing for the tech industry. It examines the philosophical basis for extinction scenarios, particularly misaligned AI goals, while questioning whether large language models actually possess internal goals or merely reflect engineered functions.
A curb ramp missing from a digital map illustrates why maintenance work deserves recognition equal to invention. Society celebrates technological creation but overlooks the ongoing care—repairs, corrections, documentation—that keeps systems accurate, safe, and accessible. This bias toward novelty over maintenance has distorted which work receives respect, though most of what makes the world livable depends on repair and attention to detail rather than disruption.