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An AI Company Just Fired Someone for Endorsing Human Extinction
Michael Druggan, former xAI employee, is now trying to de-extinct his career.
The month before Druggan was fired, in June, Faggella hosted a conference in a San Francisco mansion titled “Worthy Successor: AI and the Future after Humankind.” He reports that it was attended by: Or consider a recent Vox interview with the virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier, who is critical of these Silicon Valley ideologies of techno-utopia (bound up with the TESCREAL worldview). Years earlier, Musk got into a heated debate with Google cofounder Larry Page about the future of humanity, as recorded by the cosmologist Max Tegmark in his 2017 book Life 3.0.
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