ClaimsSteven Pinker

“the paperclip argument, the argument that if you give an AI a goal of solving climate change, it’ll exterminate every last human, because that’s a way to stop climate change.”

Steven Pinker 7 October 2026 Steven Pinker on AI Doom and Consciousness (Conspicuous Cognition) archived copy

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the paperclip argument, the argument that if you give an AI a goal of solving climate change, it’ll exterminate every last human, because…

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Steven Pinker, “the paperclip argument, the argument that if you give an AI a goal of solving climate change, it’ll exterminate every last human, because…” (said 7 October 2026). Verdict: not checkable. Reliability API, claim c_aeda68f10dec, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_aeda68f10dec

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