AI researchers voice existential gloom: 'end of human intellectual life is imminent'
zetalyrae · x · 2026-10-27
zetalyrae reposts desmansfield's metaphor of everyone 'huddled on a small island being consumed by the waves' and quotes Gregory Conti's blunt claim that 'the end of human intellectual life really is imminent' — a snapshot of the pessimist mood spreading among AI practitioners as models advance.
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