Ex-OpenAI researcher digs up Mad Men clip that eerily predicted machines replacing humans
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-11-09
Miles Brundage, former OpenAI policy researcher, shared a Mad Men scene where 1960s characters quip that "if we're all gonna be replaced by machines, might as well be a guy that makes them" — "or you could just become a robot." The decades-old dialogue lands remarkably close to today's AI displacement discourse.
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