Dan Luu fact-checks Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions — and the record isn't pretty
ShakeelHashim · x · 2026-09-03
Well-known engineer-blogger Dan Luu published a piece systematically auditing how accurate Ed Zitron's AI-skeptic predictions have actually been, and the record doesn't hold up well — with commenters calling Zitron "essentially a total crank" on AI.
It's the latest round in the AI bubble debate: as AI skepticism becomes its own audience-grabbing stance, data-driven retrospectives of the predictions are drawing wide attention.
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