Rutger Bregman: AI denial is the left's new climate denial — and more dangerous
marigo · x · 2026-11-16
Writer Rutger Bregman argues in a new talk that twenty years ago climate denial was a problem of the right; today AI denial is a problem of the left — with potentially more disastrous consequences. Smart people, he says, get AI wrong because they filter evidence through existing ideological commitments rather than engaging with the technology's actual trajectory.
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