AI researcher points to Adam Curtis doc on 90s techno-utopian frenzy
iamtrask · x · 2026-09-11
iamtrask recommends rewatching Adam Curtis's 2011 BBC series All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, which documented a similar techno-utopian frenzy in the 90s: Ayn Rand's influence on Greenspan and the Californian Ideology, and how computers distorted rather than liberated our worldview — dynamics he sees echoing in today's AI boom.
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