Anti-AI to shield tech-illiterate boomers? Ignoring doctors isn't AI's fault
felpix_ · x · 2026-10-31
- A debate sparked over AI potentially misleading tech-illiterate older people, with felpix pushing back sharply.
- His take: if someone ignores their doctors and withholds information from family, that's objectively their own fault—people behaved this way long before AI (he cites Steve Jobs), so "being anti-AI to protect one-shotted boomers" is untenable.
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