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Evil robot holding the burning Earth, symbolizing destruction and apocalyptic future

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 19, 2026

Categorized
Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Politics

Tagged
AI Doomers, AI hype, Bernie Sanders, Geoffrey Cain, Hallucination (AI), Ian Duncan, Matt Novak, Nitasha Tiku, Roger Kimball, Taylor Lorenz}

Isn’t the AI March of Dooms Getting a Bit Ridiculous Now?

_{The recent military incident of concern stemmed from an analyst relying on a hallucinating chatbot — surely an avoidable error} _{Denyse O'Leary
September 19, 2026

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Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Politics}

In an interesting cultural development, it’s easy to find people on the left and the right who are skeptical of the Doomers’ motives.

Cybersecurity big data, robots ai innovation idea

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Brendan Dixon
Date
October 21, 2025

Categorized
Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
AI Accelerationists, AI Alignment Problem (AAP), AI Doomers, Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI), Effective Altruism, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Elon Musk, Geoffrey Hinton, If Anyone Builds It (book 2025), John McCarthy, Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Max Tegmark, Nate Soares, Peter Thiel, Rationalist community (Silicon Valley), Sam Altman, Sam Bankman-Fried}

Fearing the Terminator, Missing the Obvious

_{In Part 1 of my review of the new AI Doom book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, we look at how the authors first developed the underlying idea} _{Brendan Dixon
October 21, 2025

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Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Large Language Models (LLMs)}

By 2020, authors Yudlowsky and Soares were already Doomers but the rapid success of ChatGPT and similar models heightened their worries.