Critics slam AI boosterism: 'Intellectual life didn't begin with AI companies'
wfithian · x · 2026-10-28
wfithian pushes back on the notion that intellectual life only began once AI companies mechanized it, arguing that much AI boosterism is grounded in misanthropy and dismisses humanity's existing intellectual traditions.
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