Grady Booch: AI Harm Comes From People, Doomers Underestimate Human Resilience
Grady_Booch · x · 2026-09-10
Software legend Grady Booch argues that increasingly intelligent AI can indeed cause societal harm — chiefly when unleashed by unethical individuals and corporations chasing power — but claims that beliefs in AI destroying humanity reflect an impoverished understanding of human resilience.
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