# Fear Is Not an Argument

DevFeed: [Fear Is Not an Argument](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/fear-is-not-an-argument-29429.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/10/fear-is-not-an-argument/>)

Author: Daniel Lemire

Published: 2026-09-10T18:23:42Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Daniel Lemire](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/daniel-lemire.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [Language models](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/language-models.md>), [ChatGPT](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chatgpt.md>), [Tool](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tool.md>), [Embeddings](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/embeddings.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [chatgpt](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chatgpt.md>), [embeddings](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/embeddings.md>), [large-language-model](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/large-language-model.md>), [openai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openai.md>), [statement](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/statement.md>), [tokens](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tokens.md>), [tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tools.md>)

## AI overview

This opinion argues that fears about AI causing human extinction are vague and unfalsifiable, and compares them with earlier technological and social end-of-the-world predictions. It describes large language models as systems that process and generate tokens using fixed weights, while noting that connecting them to tools makes their capabilities more consequential.

## Source excerpt

We are told that AI entities much like ChatGPT might soon kill us all. The statement is vague and unfalsifiable. It might be true, it might be false. People with credentials (e.g., Turing Award recipient Yoshua Bengio) believe it. Many still remember the Year-2000 bug. Our computers used two-digit coding for dates, and some software ... Continue reading Fear Is Not an Argument