The 2022 anime The Orbital Children feels like an AI prophecy, Redditors argue
Timoel · reddit · 2026-09-30
A Reddit post makes the case for The Orbital Children, a 2022 anime released before ChatGPT: its AI "Seven" becomes so intelligent humans can no longer understand or control it, society introduces intelligence limiters, and the series digs into AGI/ASI, alignment, loss of control, and how a superintelligence might see humanity entirely differently. Set around 2034, the timeline no longer sounds far-fetched. Critics called it mid, yet the author finds it eerily prescient and oddly under-discussed during the AI boom.
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