Harvard psychologist calls for sober AI safety engineering over doomsday rhetoric

Steven Pinker thinks fears of AI-driven extinction are overblown, and he has turned down a public debate with blogger Scott Alexander, calling such events a "spectator sport." Alexander puts the odds that AI wipes out humanity at 20 percent. Instead of doomsday rhetoric, Pinker wants sober safety engineering built on independent oversight, liability, and human control. The article Harvard…