The press obsession with software-powered doomsday is a misdirection overshadowing a much deadlier reality: our public interest regulators no longer function.
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.
AI Doomsday Bullshit Is Getting Tired
The "rogue AI" narrative continues to help obscure very ugly and avoidable human failures.
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.
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.
Don’t Believe the Hype — or Doom — About AI
For America’s VC-dominated tech industry, AI hype isn’t just a crazy by-product — it’s a structural part of the US economy in which capital tries to write our destinies. We shouldn’t let it.
The AI Doomers Have Infiltrated Washington
This week, a State Department funded report declared that AI posed an existential threat akin to nuclear weapons—and even recommended jail time for unauthorized AI development.
The Trump Administration’s Hard-On for AI, Explained
“No dooming. America will be AI DOMINANT!”
AI Almost Started a U.S.–China War — and No One Seems to Care
The tech world is too busy dreaming up imaginary doomsday scenarios to focus on a very real one that flared up between nuclear powers.
The AI Apocalypse Is Already Here | Compact
Americans do not care for artificial intelligence. Recent polling shows that their attitudes mostly range from ambivalence to horror.
AI doomsayers funded by billionaires ramp up lobbying
Nonprofits backed by tech billionaires and warning of an AI cataclysm are deploying lobbyists in an effort to press Capitol Hill to pass AI safety bills.
P(Dumb)
A sequence of very large, conspicuous advances in computing hardware technology have to happen before it makes sense to assign AI doomsday scenarios a probability greater than zero. People who make law and policy, and the people who have their attention, really need to smarten up about “artificial intelligence”.
How the AI Writing Panic Is Making Us All Worse Writers
This applies to those who use AI to write and those who don’t
Your Favorite Science YouTubers Are Wrong About AI, (e.g. SciShow, Kurzgesagt, and Kyle Hill )
Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares — Common Notions Press
Industry insiders Hagen Blix and Ingeborg Glimmer dive into the dark, twisted world of AI to demystify the many nightmares we have about it. They combine expertise in cognitive science and machine learning with political and economic analyses to cut through the hype and technobabble to show how fear
one recurring theme in the coverage of this AI Anthropic doomsday newscycle is nobody actually has any REAL ideas of what to do just a lot of ambiguous hand-waving in a country that's too corrupt to have working regulators, by a press that doesn't realize that's a central pillar of the conversation
The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’
www.wired.comAI* doomsday
Search terms: AI doomerism, p(doom) * I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
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AI Almost Started a U.S.–China War — and No One Seems to Care
Stop trusting the extinction math
Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.’s Threat to Humanity - SNL
The Trump Administration’s Hard-On for AI, Explained
AI Doomsday Panic Is Completely Out Of Control
