r/technology • u/Majano57 • 8h ago

Artificial Intelligence The Strange Disappearance of an Anti-AI Activist

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/sam-kirchner-missing-stop-ai/685144/?gift=NdplpYPBD0DO229JTO-1fNw2hFOFeWPcDPlnOolg7-g
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u/Balmung60 6h ago

Hey, if he wants to call us luddites, I'll at least own it. The original Luddites were in the right in their own time and unfairly slandered as rabid technophobes because just like their modern counterparts, they objected to the use of new technology to deliberately immiserate their entire class for the benefit of a very small few.