Economist compares AI doomerism to millenarian Evangelical end-times thinking
paulnovosad · x · 2026-09-27
Economist Paul Novosad draws an uncanny parallel between AI-eschatologists and the millenarian Evangelicals and Pentecostals he grew up with: imminent apocalyptic ruin, but paradise for those who sneak through the eye of the needle. He adds that end-times thinking is a kind of mind virus with enduring appeal, especially in America — a cultural observation on the psychology of AI doomerism.
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