"AI won't destroy humanity": Y2K analogy sparks AGI-doom debate
granawkins · x · 2026-09-11
Quoting a post mocking fears that AI will "destroy humanity," the author's interlocutor draws a Y2K analogy — noting that Y2K was only a nothing burger because SWEs actually updated their programs in time. A snapshot of the ongoing doomer-vs-skeptic culture debate on X.
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