The three brainworm schools of AI discourse: denialist, x-risk, and toolism
mimi10v3 · x · 2026-09-07
SkyeSharkie maps the three main idea spaces in AI discourse: Denialist Anti-AI (AI is a scam/slop that dies with the bubble, aka Gebruism, popular among hard leftists), X-Risk Anti-AI (a superset of rationalist doomers, from 'Terminator was scary' to 'computers are the antichrist'), and Toolism. A meme-adjacent taxonomy of the current AI discourse battlefield.
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