Norbert Wiener’s 1964 warning looks uncannily current in the age of agentic AI
annetgriffin · x · 2026-07-23
A quote from Norbert Wiener says the future will not be a comfortable hammock where “robot slaves” do our thinking for us.
Instead, he argues, machine help will come with much higher demands on human honesty and intelligence, making the future an ever more difficult struggle against the limits of our own cognition. The poster frames this as a fitting description of the world of agentic AI.
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