Sam Altman Prefers 'Renaissance' to 'Industrial Revolution' for AI — Critics Disagree
Adventurous-Bread306 · reddit · 2026-09-30
Sam Altman says he finds the Industrial Revolution comparison off-putting and prefers to frame AI as a new Renaissance. The poster argues that with boardrooms fixated on replacing human capital with AI workers, the analogy fits reality better than Altman admits.
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