150M people alive were born before the atom bomb — why past tech says little about AI risk
AndyMasley · x · 2026-09-23
AndyMasley argues we can't update much on AI risk from past technologies: the current situation is unprecedented. About 150 million people alive today were born before the atom bomb, meaning nuclear tech — our main reference point for existential tech risk — is barely a generation or two old and a weak calibration for AI.
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