Source: Gideon’s Substack
by Noah Millman
“If you were writing an opinion column in October, 1962, you couldn’t help but be aware that, depending on how the Cuban Missile Crisis ended, not only might your opinion column be pointless but all other human activity with it. Even after that crisis was resolved without destroying the world, you still had to go about your day and your year and your life knowing that it could be destroyed in an instant some time in the future, potentially by accident. Yet people did. Why is the A.I. apocalypse different? Mostly, I would argue, because it isn’t the prospect of an end. We expect to continue to live on afterwards, yet we can’t imagine doing so.” (02/20/26)