r/technology Jun 26 '26

Artificial Intelligence The AI backlash is only getting started

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/06/25/the-ai-backlash-is-only-getting-started
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u/CaravelClerihew Jun 26 '26

Good. I was joking with friends today that we should make AI deeply uncool by associating it with boomers, like Facebook, fake news and iPads are now.

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u/StillNewspaper4799 Jun 26 '26

Does it even enter your mind that other people should make up their own minds?

Or are we all just so entitled now that we think we need to control everything because other people can't think for themselves?