Pedro Domingos: Apocalypticism baked into Western psyche is a civilizational weakness
pmddomingos · x · 2026-09-13
Computer scientist Pedro Domingos argues that apocalyptic thinking is woven deep into the Western psyche, calling it a fundamental weakness of Western civilization — part of his running critique of AI doom narratives.
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