No, aliens didn't give us AI: skeptic dismantles the Roswell-origin conspiracy
AryHHAry · x · 2026-11-15
A user speculated that AI's breakthrough might have come from aliens, possibly tied to the 1947 Roswell incident. AryHHAry pushes back point by point:
- AI's lineage is well documented: Dartmouth 1956 (McCarthy et al.), backprop, scaling, transformers — all clear human work; no need for a "1947 handoff"
- Roswell remains a balloon incident; no verified non-human tech has ever been recovered
- Models feel alien because they're emergent and opaque (Amodei's point), but they're still our systems trained on our data
The real issue, per the author, is keeping human agency and building assurance — not untestable origin stories. Sci-fi curiosity is fine; treating it as default isn't.
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