1960s Anxieties About AI's Social Impact Mirror Today's Concerns
iskander · x · 2026-07-30
Reading the 1960s literature "Cybernation: The Silent Conquest" reveals that it was common to conflate computing with cognition, drastically underestimating how long it would take to evolve from the Perceptron to modern AI.
Interestingly, despite the technical timeline misses, the societal and economic anxieties surrounding automation back then closely parallel today's concerns about AI.
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