Ezra Klein on gradual disempowerment: Jon Stewart's disbelief at AI utopia
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-10-22
Former OpenAI policy head Miles Brundage reshares Ezra Klein's essay on gradual disempowerment from AI, built around Jon Stewart's conversation with researcher Jacob Coxon. Klein finds Coxon's description of AI utopia—and Stewart's incredulous response—more revealing than the doom warning, tying it to Francis Fukuyama's "Last Man" and AI easily solving math problems that stumped his father's field for decades. Brundage agrees gradual disempowerment is likely and likely bad for the human psyche and society.
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