Claire Lehman: AI doomers are building a 'priestly class' that brooks no dissent
AndyMasley · x · 2026-09-25
Claire Lehman argues that even if the current AI boom is a bubble and its economic impact overhyped, AI remains extremely important — and doomers who anthropomorphize AI and predict apocalypse are setting themselves up as a priestly class that brooks no dissent. The retweeter adds that accusing disagreeers of ulterior motives is a ridiculous accusation.
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