Oct. 7, 2023, 4 p.m. | Jessica Dai

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This essay first appeared in Reboot.

Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk” (abbreviated “x-risk”) has reached the mainstream. Who could have foreseen that the smallcaps onomatopoeia “ꜰᴏᴏᴍ” — both evocative of and directly derived from children’s cartoons —

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