&gt; First, citing Kurzweil as a proponent of AI risk is very odd.<p>The article doesn&#x27;t do that. It says:<p>&gt; The leading theorist and cheerleader for mankind’s imminent disappearance into insignificance or worse is Ray Kurzweil, who extrapolates the exponential growth in technological capability characterised by Moore’s law to a point in the mid 2040s—the Singularity—where AI will be self-perpetuating and no longer reliant on human intellect.<p>Kurzweil is being brought up as someone who thinks that some sort of superintelligence will soon surpass humans, which is true. The &quot;cheerleader&quot; comment is to indicate that, as you put it, &quot;Kurzweil thinks AI is the bees knees.&quot;