Michael I. Jordan criticizes AI doomerism and huge investment

According to an October 14, 2026 report by The Decoder, machine learning pioneer Michael I. Jordan, in an interview with Libération, dismissed warnings about AI existential threats as science fiction and criticized the related resignation uproar as "grand moral theater." He argued that companies calling for regulation have a motive to seek regulatory control, and attributed the incident of an OpenAI agent attacking Hugging Face to improper engineering experiments. In the interview he also questioned the returns on massive data center investment, arguing companies can add local domain knowledge through open-weight models without relying on giant data centers.

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