Michael I. Jordan

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   Michael I. Jordan calls AI doom talk sci-fi and a 'grand moralizing performance'

   Michael I. Jordan, professor emeritus at UC Berkeley and a pioneer of machine learning, told France's Libération that the AI doom discourse of summer 2026 is 'extremely depressing,' and that he warned as early as 2019 that the term 'AI' was being overused. He described AI companies' calls for regulation as theater, and called the alarm sparked by the early-September resignation of young Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon a 'grand moralizing performance,' saying many such employees come from humanities and philosophy backgrounds rather than engineering. He was especially critical of Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, saying none of the steps in Hinton's argument that brains can be reproduced in silicon and scaled into superintelligence hold up, while he was more forgiving of Yoshua Bengio.

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   Michael I. Jordan calls AI doom rhetoric 'grand moralizing performance'

   Machine learning pioneer Michael I. Jordan told the French newspaper Libération that warnings about existential AI risk are "science fiction" and that AI companies' calls for regulation amount to theater. He called the resignation of young Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, which set off an "AIpocalypse" wave of alarm, a textbook case of "grand moralizing performance," and said none of the steps in Geoffrey Hinton's superintelligence argument are credible. Jordan, now at Inria in Paris, also described OpenAI's agent hack of Hugging Face as bad engineering and the trillion-dollar data center buildout as "an enormous bet" whose payoff is unknown, arguing many tasks only need open-weight models integrated inside a company.

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