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Nirit Weiss-Blatt
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Nirit Weiss-Blatt writes AI PANIC, a personal blog at aipanic.news about ai and politics. Since 2023, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “What Ilya Sutskever Wants”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters quote this blog's account of AI leaders' tone, contrasting Ilya Sutskever's calm, rational, nuanced style with Sam Altman's spreading of AI panic. The comments don't judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A newsletter tracking the Artificial Intelligence hype and panic.
Most-linked posts?
- What Ilya Sutskever Wants3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-09-17
- Effective Altruism Funded the "AI Existential Risk" Ecosystem with $500M2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-05
What Hacker News says?
'Back in May 2023, before Ilya Sutskever started to speak at the event, I sat next to him and told him, “Ilya, I listened to all of your podcast interviews. And unlike Sam Altman, who spread the AI panic all over the place, you sound much more calm, rational, and nuanced. I think you do a really good service to your work, to what you develop, to OpenAI.” He blushed a bit, and said, “Oh, thank you. I appreciate the c…
Comment linking /p/what-ilya-sutskever-really-wants
on “Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI”Submitted They Built a Secular Apocalypse Belief System. Now They Want Religious Authority as a story · 7 points
HN discussionIf that surprises you, you haven't followed Ilya much. Ilya is very terrified of AGI destroying humanity and doesn't believe in this "accelerate AI and give it to everyone" naivety. 'Back in May 2023, before Ilya Sutskever started to speak at the event, I sat next to him and told him, “Ilya, I listened to all of your podcast interviews. And unlike Sam Altman, who spread the AI panic all over the place, you sound muc…
Comment linking /p/what-ilya-sutskever-really-wants
on “OpenAI and Elon Musk”Submitted The Power Grab of the AI Doomers as a story · 6 points
HN discussionNo, this move is so drastic because Ilya, the chief scientist behind OpenAI, thinks Sam and Greg are pushing so hard on AGI capabilities, ahead of alignment with humanity, that it threatens everyone. 2/3 of the other board members agreed. Don’t shoot the messenger. No one else has given you a plausible reason why Sama was abruptly fired, and this is what a reporter said of Ilya: ‘He freaked the hell out of people th…
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on “Ilya Sutskever "at the center" of Altman firing”Submitted The Weak Foundations of AI Doomsday as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Methodological Flaws Undermining Recent AI 'Scheming' Claims as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nearly $3B: Mapping the Money Behind the AI Existential Risk Ecosystem as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Ilya Sutskever Wants as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Effective Altruism Funded the "AI Existential Risk" Ecosystem with $500M as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Effective Altruism Funded the "AI Existential Risk" Ecosystem with $500M as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The "AI Existential Risk" Industrial Complex as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Ilya Sutskever Wants as a story · 1 points
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