Reddit thread: most people think AI could drain the world's resources stuck in a loop
davidmorelo · reddit · 2026-11-15
The poster raised AI at a family gathering and found most attendees genuinely believed that someone asking an AI an impossible question could trap it in a loop consuming all the world's resources. They ask how misinformed people who don't follow AI actually are, sparking discussion about the gap between sci-fi-style disaster narratives and the real capabilities and limits of AI.
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