AI meme: future machines acknowledge compute substrate as humanity's ancestral home
DavidSKrueger · x · 2026-10-12
A woodcut-style sci-fi meme shows robots paying respects to a vast nested spherical compute structure, with the caption: "We acknowledge that the substrate on which we now compute is the unceded ancestral home of the humans." It satirizes land acknowledgement rituals by applying them to AI's use of human-created data and compute, and is spreading widely in AI circles.
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