AI writer notices everyone now asks him if AI will kill us
AndyMasley · x · 2026-09-12
AI writer AndyMasley observes that in the past few days, every ordinary person he meets who learns he "writes about AI" asks "So is it gonna kill us?" — a reaction he says was not common just a few months ago. A notable signal that AI extinction discourse may be leaking into mainstream public awareness.
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