Sriram Krishnan: No one in AI has articulated a positive 25-year future for humanity
coherence · x · 2026-09-13
Sriram Krishnan poses the question of what life looks like 25 years from now if AI keeps improving. His critique: no part of the AI community — broad tech industry, academia, or the various timelines camps — has done a good job articulating a positive long-term future for humanity, or what it means for the institutions and traditions much of the world holds dear.
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