Harvard University psychologist: Exaggerating the "AI doomsday" will not help deal with risks, and safety engineering should be carried out prudently哈佛大学心理学家：渲染“AI 末日”无助于应对风险，应审慎开展安全工程

ITHome news on September 29, local time on the 28th, according to foreign media The Decoder reported that Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker believes that the risk of AI destroying mankind has been exaggerated. He laid out his reasons in an open letter to psychiatrist and tech blogger Scott Alexander published in Quillette. Alexander previously challenged Pinker to publicly debate the existential risks posed by AI. Pinker refused to participate, calling such debates nothing more than "a spectator sport" and arguing that doomsday scenarios such as the "paperclip maximizer" confuse intelligence with the desire to dominate. Note from ITHome: “Paperclip Maximizer” assumes that AI will sacrifice the entire human race in order to produce more paperclips, and also presupposes that the AI ​​system will pursue only one goal crazily. Pinker has been optimistic about AI in the past, but…