The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making — Ludicity
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The Trump Administration’s Hard-On for AI, Explained
“No dooming. America will be AI DOMINANT!”
For years, they warned AI could kill all humans. Now people are listening.
A doomsaying community once on the periphery of the tech industry has gained influence, as AI “agents” perform amazing and alarming feats.
AI FOR EPISTEMICS & COORDINATION
Civilization and technology have radically improved the human condition. Nonetheless, the world sometimes goes in directions which essentially nobody would prefer — e.g., nuclear arms races, unexpected financial crashes, predatory marketing, or ubiquitous political misinformation.
AI IS CREATIVE BANKRUPTCY
Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?
What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?
Karpathy says developers have 'AI Psychosis.' Everyone else is next.
Anthropic’s Mythos, Gen Z’s backlash, and Meta’s token binge all point to the same shift: developers are feeling AI first, but not for long.
AI Doomers Are Starting to Admit It: They’re Going Too Far
One of the biggest doomsayers of artificial intelligence has done an about-face—and it could help save the world.
Human Life in a Post-AGI World - Google DeepMind Talk
Tyler Cowen at Google DeepMind on life after AGI: rebuilding every institution, the rise of "AI maniacs," and why the future will be drenched in meaning.
Here Are a Few of the Ways AI Could In Fact Kill Everyone
It has become fashionable to ask “doomers” to “get specific” about their dooming. Well, aiight then.
Billie Eilish, Pearl Jam, 200 artists say AI poses existential threat to their livelihoods
Artists say AI will "set in motion a race to the bottom that will degrade the value of our work."
We Need to Know More About How AI is Affecting Mental Health
The public, mental health practitioners, and policymakers don’t know enough about the impacts of AI use on the human psyche, writes Chris Mills Rodrigo.
Steven Pinker Replies to Scott Alexander on AI
The dangers of AI are real, but doomerism may be counterproductive.
AI May Be Atrophying Our Brains, Professor Warns
AI may soon ruin our ability to make decisions for ourselves — an outcome that would be, one expert warns, "catastrophic."
AI is not superhuman
What metaphor should drive the field of AI research?
It feels like nearly every dev talking about AI is either: a maximalist – Font of hype and boosterism. Manic energy on building. Signs of AI psychosis. a skeptic – Depressed by the torrent of slop and disappearance of craft. Waiting for the industry to implode when token prices skyrocket.
