Michael I. Jordan calls AI doom rhetoric science fiction and a "grand moralizing performance"

Machine learning pioneer Michael I. Jordan, professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, dismisses warnings about existential AI threats as science fiction in an interview with Libération.

He calls the resignation of Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon a "grand moralizing performance" and says the superintelligence debate has become harmful.

Jordan also says the massive data center investments are an enormous bet with no certainty of payoff, and that specialized needs can be met with open-weight models.