'Easier to Imagine AI Apocalypse Than the End of Factory Farming'
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-09-17
A widely shared quip points out a striking asymmetry in risk perception: it is easier to imagine the end of the world via misaligned AI than the end of factory farming — a jab at how abstract doomsday narratives in AI safety discourse crowd out tangible real-world harms.
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