Alvaro BedoyaB

Alvaro Bedoya serves in an unspecified role at an unnamed organization. In his public capacity, he has consistently argued against prioritizing long-term artificial intelligence extinction scenarios, urging policymakers and industry observers to instead direct their attention toward addressing immediate, concrete harms associated with current AI technologies. Bedoya has consistently advocated for a more pragmatic approach to AI regulation, frequently characterizing warnings about existential risks as hyperbolic alarmism. He has faced scrutiny for repeatedly drawing historical parallels between these AI extinction concerns and historical reactions to the Black Death, a comparison he employs to argue that such catastrophic framing lacks historical foundation. By dismissing these specific existential risk narratives, Bedoya has publicly positioned as a critic of Big Tech entities that promote extinction-level warnings, pushing instead for a regulatory focus on tangible and present AI issues.