The Real AI Doom Scenario Isn't Terminator, It's a Mental WALL-E
eigenhector · x · 2026-09-12
A thread musing on AI doom narratives: the author argues the real scenario isn't a Terminator-style uprising but humans slowly outsourcing their thinking and sex lives to robots — 'WALL-E but mental.' He notes no novel or movie has covered this slow, boring apocalypse, dismissing The Matrix (human batteries) and speculating Cloud Atlas comes closest, though the film glosses over what happened after its robot era in Korea.
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