Timnit Gebru shares a 1963 quote on mechanical brains and human extinction
MilagrosMiceli · x · 2026-09-06
- Timnit Gebru shares a 1963 passage: humanity "may soon have to face the choice between becoming servants within a society of mechanical brains, or of becoming extinct save for a few specimens preserved in a museum to be studied by scholarly robots."
- Framed as a guessing game, the post shows that AI-doom rhetoric predates the current wave by over six decades — a historical footnote to today's extinction discourse.
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