Forget about the potential upside of Donanemab. Social media users who are familiar with the “Planet of the Apes” franchise are already worried about it bringing about humanity’s end of days. This is the concern of X user @ResonantJustice, who wrote, “Welp, I know how this story ends” alongside a clip of primates reigning supreme in “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.”
Conversely, @DefNotKratos believes that humans were becoming obsolete before a potential ape uprising became a concern, and the future apocalyptic conflict will see the primates go to war with another threatening force. “With the rise of AI and Alzheimer’s drug that might spark Planet of the Apes, maybe humans won’t be actively involved in either war. AI and the apes would fight only to see who will enslave what’s left of humanity.”
Of course, some X users think everyone is acting bananas in the wake of this breakthrough, and they’re urging everyone else to calm down. As a user named @Arborvitar noted, the drug has already been approved and thus won’t be tested on primates. As such, apes probably won’t develop super intelligence and take over the world any time soon. Let’s hope this prediction is true — but only time will tell if it is.
To learn more about the classic sci-fi franchise, check out Looper’s untold truth of “The Planet of the Apes.”
