Rutger Bregman reverses his AI skepticism: 'It's time to panic about AI'
birchlse · x · 2026-11-15
Author Rutger Bregman publishes a long-form mea culpa: after years siding with skeptics who dismissed AI as 'spicy autocomplete' and mocking ChatGPT's strawberry-counting failure, he argues the machine 'kept learning things it was never supposed to learn.' His latest trigger: OpenAI's release of 700+ papers solving hundreds of open math problems, which left Fields Medalist Hugo Duminil-Copin 'paralyzed' with shock. Re-examining past skeptic predictions, he concludes it's time to take AI risk seriously.
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