Time cover then vs now: from "climate change will destroy humanity" to "AI will destroy humanity"
pmddomingos · x · 2026-09-17
A side-by-side of Time magazine covers from 2006 and 2026 shows the doom narrative swapping subjects: from "climate change will destroy humanity" to "AI will destroy humanity."
Pedro Domingos shared it with a pointed question: "What will it be in 2046?" — poking at how mainstream media's apocalypse framing just rotates targets while the playbook stays the same.
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