Miles Brundage worries AI info flood is breaking our cognitive defenses
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-09-23
Former OpenAI policy lead Miles Brundage invoked a scene from Death's End — Earth flooded with Trisolaran media to win hearts and minds — as an analogy for today's AI-generated content deluge. He hopes AI's impact won't be zero-sum and sees real reasons it could be positive-sum, but worries our cognitive defenses aren't working well amid rapid change: "not sure we're thinking clearly."
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