Maybe Cloud Atlas Got the AI Apocalypse Right, Says Thread
eigenhector · x · 2026-09-12
Continuing the AI-doom-in-fiction discussion, the author guesses Cloud Atlas might be the closest match: without reading the book, the movie makes it hard to tell what happened between the sexy robot era in Korea and the sudden apocalypse.
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