AI doomerism isnβt new. Meet the original alarmist: Norbert Wiener Freethink By: Louis Anslow 11 September 2025 at 16:00 Decades before Geoffrey Hinton and Eliezer Yudkowsky raised alarms, the computer scientist warned AI could steal jobs and outsmart humans.
The Eiffel Tower was considered techno-dystopian Freethink By: Louis Anslow 27 August 2025 at 16:00 Before completion for the 1889 Worldβs Fair, the Eiffel Tower project was treated by some as an industrialist "Tower of Babel."
The forgotten war on the Walkman Freethink By: Louis Anslow 13 August 2025 at 16:56 Today, the Sony Walkman inspires nostalgia, but in the 1980s, it was feared as a dangerous device that could disconnect society.
The real danger in βI, Robotβ isnβt AI. Itβs humans. Freethink By: Louis Anslow 24 July 2025 at 18:30 βI, Robotβ is a convincing allegory in favor of embracing AI innovation rather than over-regulating, centralizing, and stifling it.
Albert Einstein said automation caused the Great Depression. It didnβt. Freethink By: Louis Anslow 2 July 2025 at 16:01 Einstein blamed automation for the widespread unemployment of the Great Depression, but his reasoning was based on a false premise.
The war on artificial ice Freethink By: Louis Anslow 18 June 2025 at 16:14 Decades before states started banning lab-grown meat, manufactured ice was the "unnatural" alternative under attack.
America tried to ban fake photos in 1912 Freethink By: Louis Anslow 4 June 2025 at 15:00 Mistakes made by the US government 100 years ago could help us determine the best way to regulate AI-manipulated images and videos today.
Pac-Man turned 45 today. The surgeon general once warned that playing it could make kids violent. Freethink By: Louis Anslow 22 May 2025 at 15:00 Officials' warnings about the impact of video games on kids were never proven true. They may be making the same mistake with social media.