Blogger's mom shrugs at AI doomsday warnings: will apathy be the normie default?
TheMoonMidas · x · 2026-09-12
- TheMoonMidas shares a three-day anecdote: he told his mom about AI x-risk talk, she then saw it in the news, and by the next day her reaction was a shrug — "ah yeah, heard that in the news."
- He wonders whether this total apathy will turn out to be the typical public response to AI risk warnings.
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