The Verge: Our minds aren't equipped to handle AI
The Verge AI · rss · 2026-10-05
- The Verge argues the AI industry habitually reduces the brain to a computer: Demis Hassabis calls it "a biological approximation to a Turing machine," and Elon Musk says people should think of the brain as a biological computer.
- Invoking cybernetics founder Norbert Wiener's line that "the thought of every age is reflected in its technique," the author contends this mechanical analogy understates human complexity.
- Core claim: humans are far more complex than the comparison suggests, AI products are straining that gap, and our minds aren't equipped for what's coming.
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