Reddit thread: AI isn't necessarily progress, and AI skeptics aren't Luddites
Illustrious-Film4018 · reddit · 2026-10-21
The post argues that "progress" should mean rising living standards and happiness for the majority, so calling AI "progress" at this point is unfair. Scenarios where AI fails that test include mass-casualty events, bio-terrorism, or a dystopian future where most people are worse off while a few are obscenely rich; AI has even been proposed as a candidate "Great Filter" explaining the absence of visible intelligent life in the universe. The author concludes that being anti-AI doesn't make someone a Luddite—whether AI benefited society can only be judged in retrospect.
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