Rutger Bregman: The AI 'Panic- mongers' Have a Decade of Correct Predictions
birchlse · x · 2026-11-12
Historian Rutger Bregman's new essay 'Yes, you should panic about AI' argues that for ten years a small group of 'crazy-sounding' AI experts has been repeatedly proven right, while reasonable-sounding skeptics have been wrong again and again — and the world is now running about five months ahead of the scariest predictions.
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