e/acc founder Beff Jezos: today's AI panic is elite anxiety from elite overproduction
beffjezos · x · 2026-09-18
Beff Jezos, founder of the e/acc movement, argues that every modern issue is downstream of 'elite overproduction.' Quoting Louis Anslow, he frames the current techno-panic around AI as not a panic of ordinary people but of elites projecting their anxieties onto an imaginary shoggoth — a debate over the social roots of AI fear.
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