Michael I. Jordan dismisses AI doom rhetoric as 'grand moralizing performance'

Michael I. Jordan, a machine learning pioneer and professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, asserts that warnings about existential AI threats are science fiction, criticizing the overuse of terms like AGI and 'superintelligence' since 2019. Jordan views the resignation of Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon as a 'grand moralizing performance' rather than genuine concern, noting that many young employees are not engineers but rather come from humanities or philosophy. He warns that making these speculative terms the dominant discourse is harmful to technological development and national mindset.