...why some companies have started mandating AI adoption, or why Fink & Nadella keep saying things like “you have to trust it” & “it’s going to be diffused” so emphatically it feels like protesting too much, it’s because the slingshot from infrastructural investment to hyperscaled application... 8/
Oct 15, 2026 at 12:38 PM
70 years of AI hype
Quoting from Olivia Guest et al. (2025) "Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia."
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AI Bros Wanted Trump. Now They Learn What Happens When You Tell Him No.
Last year, in Fascism For First Time Founders, I warned the tech industry what happens when you cozy up to authoritarians. As I wrote then: Innovation requires trust. Not just between individuals, …
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The tech elite are pouring billions into dispensing with inconvenient humans. Now governments want the same trick to wish away the migrants their economies desperately need, writes the author and Nerve columnist
I do wish it was better understood by now—especially by folks in the media—that these "warnings" from large AI corporations in fact function as "advertisements" axios.com/2025/04/22/ai-anthropic-virtu…
Exclusive: Anthropic warns fully AI employees are a year away
www.axios.comI do wish it was better understood by now—especially by folks in the media—that these "warnings" from large AI corporations in fact function as "advertisements" axios.com/2025/04/22/ai-anthropic-virtu…
Exclusive: Anthropic warns fully AI employees are a year away
www.axios.com"AI makes it cheaper to contribute to Open Source, but it's not making life easier for maintainers. More contributions are flowing in, but the burden of evaluating them still falls on the same small group of people. That asymmetric pressure risks breaking maintainers." also relevant to slop science
