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summary: "How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking for the public trust on AI."
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# Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse

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**Published:** 2026-09-17T21:15:52.000Z
**Category:** Models
**Topics:** anthropic, claude, multi\-agent, open\-source

## Summary

How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking for the public trust on AI\.

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://www.iankduncan.com/personal/2026-09-16-sex-ai-and-the-apocalypse/>)
- [Discussion](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746654>)