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On October 28, 2026, Ethan Mollick posted a rebuttal to the recurring claim that "AI companies talk about existential risk in order to generate hype and drive up stock prices." He said this claim has always been strange: telling people your product could kill everyone does not actually encourage people to adopt it, nor does it reduce regulatory risk. The post cited a post by Cody Fenwick criticizing a CJR report. There have been no subsequent developments.
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Mollick rebuts AI companies' hype about existential risk
Ethan Mollick finds the recurring claim that "AI companies talk about existential risk to generate buzz and drive up stock prices" strange: telling people your product could kill everyone doesn't actually encourage adoption, nor does it reduce regulatory risk. The post cites a post by Cody Fenwick criticizing a CJR report.