Miles Brundage: AI persuasion has a bad track record, reality does the convincing
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-10-02
Former OpenAI policy lead Miles Brundage argues that persuading people about AI has a poor historical track record. He attributes recent improvements in AI discourse not to persuasion efforts, but mainly to newcomers entering without strong priors and reaching reasonable conclusions, plus reality hitting both new and old participants.
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