Cal Newport interviews Emile Torres, a critic of AI's ideologies

Cal Newport published an interview on YouTube on 8 October with Emile Torres, a researcher of eschatological and utopian movements who says they believed in them until 2019. Torres argues that seven related ideologies, among them transhumanism, rationalism, effective altruism and longtermism, share the goal of a posthuman utopia, and that this helps explain the race to superintelligence. Torres named the set TESCREAL. In their account, "safety" for these groups means aligning AI with that vision.

Newport shares the thesis, and both say they doubt such a superintelligence is possible. These are two people's interpretations, not measurements, and nobody from the movements criticised takes part in the conversation.