







The massive chasm between AI hype and reality is finally reaching the breaking point.
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.

Companies That Replaced Humans With AI Are Realizing Their Mistake
As AI agents have yet to pay for themselves, more and more executives are waking up to the sloppy reality of AI hype.

70 years of AI hype
Quoting from Olivia Guest et al. (2025) "Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia."

Don't fall into the anti-AI hype - <antirez>
The AI Takeover Has Arrived
...but it looks completely different from what we imagined


AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy (xpost)
Both sides are grappling with a real existential threat, and both sides feel like they are screaming into the void. There is a way to close the gap and get everyone pulling in the same direction.. …

Import AI 458: Reckoning with the future; and a singularity story
What AI-driven miracles will happen this year?


The Thoughts The Civilized Keep
The hype around a new AI language generator reveals the sterility of mainstream thinking on AI today — and indeed on how we think about thinking itself.

AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy
Both sides are grappling with a real existential threat, and both sides feel like they are screaming into the void. Here's how to close the gap and get everyone pulling in the same direction.

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.

The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025
An inside view of the AI revolution, from the people an…

The AI We Deserve
Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where’s the utopian vision for what it could be?

The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025
An inside view of the AI revolution, from the people and companies making it happen.
