Nobel laureate Ressa: limit AI now or humanity loses its agency
goji836 · reddit · 2026-09-15
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa warns that humanity will lose its agency unless AI is limited now. She frames AI's impact as three waves: social media capturing attention and polarizing societies; chatbots 'hacking our biology' through engineered intimacy; and now agentic, multi-agent frontier models that 'don't just pretend to be human, but act for us.' 'AI is neither artificial nor intelligent,' she says, noting its 70-year arc has hit the public three times.
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