Accelerationists vs doomers

Chaos at OpenAI shines a spotlight on a fierce debate about AI, and the probability it will spell doom for the human race 
-- 24November 2023 TextThom Waite Although there can be something called doomer accelerationism, be it "left-wing" or "right-wing" desire or advocacy for grand destruction or decay, combined with e.g. racial discourse or eco-alarmist discourse, or even a valorisation of renewal-through-destruction like in some early usages of futurism we shall call collapse futurism, there's also a plane where a faction warning of, or projecting, doom appears, and is in conflict with those who minimise or ignore such risk (Eiríksson, 2023). This argument, sometimes referred to as one between “accelerationists” and “doomers,” has flared up in recent months as regulators have begun to circle the A.I. industry and the technology has become more powerful.
-- nytimes.comAccelerationists tend to believe that technology and innovation are the keys to unlocking human potential, and they tend to advocate for rapid and aggressive adoption of new technologies and/or social structures, seeing technology as a means of overcoming traditional limitations and creating a better future for humanity. On the other hand, doomers tend to take a more pessimistic view of the future. They believe that technological progress and societal changes are leading us down a dangerous path, and that we are on the brink of a global collapse.pp
----Everyone in AI is a doomer, an accelerationist, or some combination of the two. Both are very wrong. We need a real alternative to doomer accelerationism.
-- Wolf Tivy @wolftivy, Sep 15, 2023.
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* AI divides humanity into two camps — doomers vs. ... | nationalpost.com, 2023.
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* accelerationism ☻ doomerism;
* doomer accelerationist; accelerationist doomer; anti-ai doomer; technophobe doomer; anti-ai doomerism
* skepticism of industrialism; doomers vs industrialists
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