AI denial is now a problem of the Left (opens in new tab)

His Substack post calls it "denial" and argues that the stakes may be even higher.In a new essay (also available as a video), Rutger Bregman accuses his own side of a kind of denial he once thought belonged only to the Right. Coming from someone with genuine progressive credentials rather than an industry booster, the critique is harder to wave away. He walks through the familiar skeptic talking points, the stochastic parrots, the "spicy autocomplete," the it's-all-a-bubble argument, and cont...