2026-09-15 · Semafor
🔮 The late Henry Kissinger initially made his name as an academic writing about nuclear arms control during the Cold War, and latterly forged his reputation as the architect of US-China detente.
In his final years, however, Kissinger was fixated on what he believed to be an even greater danger: For the first time in human history, he observed, a technology — self-learning machines — could potentially target anything, anywhere, with any kind of destruction, making the world “100% vulnerable.”
He had become an AI doomer. assertive