#aidoomerism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #aidoomerism, aggregated by home.social.
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Wow, I hardly ever 1) finish reading one of Pluralistic's essays (something about his typographical choices antagonizes my eyes), let alone 2) post a link to it, but this one? This one's a banger: https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/16/pascals-wager/#doomer-challenge
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The AI Doc’s Falsehoods And False Balance
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/02/the-ai-docs-falsehoods-and-false-balance/
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The AI Doc’s Falsehoods And False Balance
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/02/the-ai-docs-falsehoods-and-false-balance/
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The AI Doc’s Falsehoods And False Balance
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/02/the-ai-docs-falsehoods-and-false-balance/
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The AI Doc’s Falsehoods And False Balance
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/02/the-ai-docs-falsehoods-and-false-balance/
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The AI Doc’s Falsehoods And False Balance
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/02/the-ai-docs-falsehoods-and-false-balance/
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"AI doomerism" und AGI-Horrorgeschichten lenken von der berechtigten und dringend notwendigen Kritik am aktuellen AI-Hype ab. AI-Startups verwenden die Horrorgeschichten paradoxerweise sogar als Werbung. Man muss also höllisch aufpassen, welcher Kritik man sich anschließt.
Sehr gut auseinanderklamüsert bekommen das @emilymbender und @alex in ihrem extrem wichtigen Buch The AI Con, von dem es leider noch keine deutsche Übersetzung gibt.
Im Deutschen empfehle ich das exzellente schmale Reclambändchen von @RainerMuehlhoff: Künstliche Intelligenz und der neue Faschismus.
Wer lieber zuhört, kann sich ein großartiges Gespräch anhören, das @kattascha mit Prof. Mühlhoff für ihren Podcast geführt hat: https://www.denkangebot.org/allgemein/rainer-muehlhoff-ueber-ki-und-autoritaere-sehnsuechte-im-silicon-valley/ – Audio-Download: https://www.denkangebot.org/podlove/file/52/s/feed/c/mp3/DA046-1.mp3
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"AI doomerism" und AGI-Horrorgeschichten lenken von der berechtigten und dringend notwendigen Kritik am aktuellen AI-Hype ab. AI-Startups verwenden die Horrorgeschichten paradoxerweise sogar als Werbung. Man muss also höllisch aufpassen, welcher Kritik man sich anschließt.
Sehr gut auseinanderklamüsert bekommen das @emilymbender und @alex in ihrem extrem wichtigen Buch The AI Con, von dem es leider noch keine deutsche Übersetzung gibt.
Im Deutschen empfehle ich das exzellente schmale Reclambändchen von @RainerMuehlhoff: Künstliche Intelligenz und der neue Faschismus.
Wer lieber zuhört, kann sich ein großartiges Gespräch anhören, das @kattascha mit Prof. Mühlhoff für ihren Podcast geführt hat: https://www.denkangebot.org/allgemein/rainer-muehlhoff-ueber-ki-und-autoritaere-sehnsuechte-im-silicon-valley/ – Audio-Download: https://www.denkangebot.org/podlove/file/52/s/feed/c/mp3/DA046-1.mp3
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"AI doomerism" und AGI-Horrorgeschichten lenken von der berechtigten und dringend notwendigen Kritik am aktuellen AI-Hype ab. AI-Startups verwenden die Horrorgeschichten paradoxerweise sogar als Werbung. Man muss also höllisch aufpassen, welcher Kritik man sich anschließt.
Sehr gut auseinanderklamüsert bekommen das @emilymbender und @alex in ihrem extrem wichtigen Buch The AI Con, von dem es leider noch keine deutsche Übersetzung gibt.
Im Deutschen empfehle ich das exzellente schmale Reclambändchen von @RainerMuehlhoff: Künstliche Intelligenz und der neue Faschismus.
Wer lieber zuhört, kann sich ein großartiges Gespräch anhören, das @kattascha mit Prof. Mühlhoff für ihren Podcast geführt hat: https://www.denkangebot.org/allgemein/rainer-muehlhoff-ueber-ki-und-autoritaere-sehnsuechte-im-silicon-valley/ – Audio-Download: https://www.denkangebot.org/podlove/file/52/s/feed/c/mp3/DA046-1.mp3
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"AI doomerism" und AGI-Horrorgeschichten lenken von der berechtigten und dringend notwendigen Kritik am aktuellen AI-Hype ab. AI-Startups verwenden die Horrorgeschichten paradoxerweise sogar als Werbung. Man muss also höllisch aufpassen, welcher Kritik man sich anschließt.
Sehr gut auseinanderklamüsert bekommen das @emilymbender und @alex in ihrem extrem wichtigen Buch The AI Con, von dem es leider noch keine deutsche Übersetzung gibt.
Im Deutschen empfehle ich das exzellente schmale Reclambändchen von @RainerMuehlhoff: Künstliche Intelligenz und der neue Faschismus.
Wer lieber zuhört, kann sich ein großartiges Gespräch anhören, das @kattascha mit Prof. Mühlhoff für ihren Podcast geführt hat: https://www.denkangebot.org/allgemein/rainer-muehlhoff-ueber-ki-und-autoritaere-sehnsuechte-im-silicon-valley/ – Audio-Download: https://www.denkangebot.org/podlove/file/52/s/feed/c/mp3/DA046-1.mp3
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"AI doomerism" und AGI-Horrorgeschichten lenken von der berechtigten und dringend notwendigen Kritik am aktuellen AI-Hype ab. AI-Startups verwenden die Horrorgeschichten paradoxerweise sogar als Werbung. Man muss also höllisch aufpassen, welcher Kritik man sich anschließt.
Sehr gut auseinanderklamüsert bekommen das @emilymbender und @alex in ihrem extrem wichtigen Buch The AI Con, von dem es leider noch keine deutsche Übersetzung gibt.
Im Deutschen empfehle ich das exzellente schmale Reclambändchen von @RainerMuehlhoff: Künstliche Intelligenz und der neue Faschismus.
Wer lieber zuhört, kann sich ein großartiges Gespräch anhören, das @kattascha mit Prof. Mühlhoff für ihren Podcast geführt hat: https://www.denkangebot.org/allgemein/rainer-muehlhoff-ueber-ki-und-autoritaere-sehnsuechte-im-silicon-valley/ – Audio-Download: https://www.denkangebot.org/podlove/file/52/s/feed/c/mp3/DA046-1.mp3
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Alibaba: the AI kingmaker – Asia Times
A doctor anywhere likely loves using AI as a second opinion on her lawyers’ legal advice, to prepare…
#NewsBeep #News #Artificialintelligence #AI #AIDoomerism #ArtificialIntelligence #Block2 #bytedance #CA #Canada #ChinaAI #ChinaAIAdoption #DeepSeek #GenInnov #Huawei #mistral #Moonshot #Nvidia #OpenAI #Qwen #SaaSMarket #StanfordHAIAIIndex #Technology
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I writing a part 2, and perhaps a part 3, so this may be a series. It eventually drifts away from Hank and explores why #AIdoomerism seems so popular in left-leaning circles (spoiler: maybe it's not? It's complicated)
Anyway, my apologies to anyone who subscribed via RSS because you thought I only posted coffee reflection essays. I promise to do something lighter after the series.
https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/hank-green-and-the-fantastical-tales-of-god-ais/
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Add Under The Desk News to the growing list of left-leaning influencers promoting #AIDoomerism
They admit at the top of the video, they know nothing about this topic yet. Oof. Come on guys, do your homework.
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Anecdotally on mastodon, and based on very rudimentary analytics from Tinylytics, Germany 🇩🇪 seems the most receptive to fighting back on #AIdoomerism.
What's going on over there in Deutschland? Why are y'all ahead of the curb?
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Radicalized Anti-AI Activist Should Be A Wake Up Call For Doomer Rhetoric
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Radicalized Anti-AI Activist Should Be A Wake Up Call For Doomer Rhetoric
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Radicalized Anti-AI Activist Should Be A Wake Up Call For Doomer Rhetoric
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Radicalized Anti-AI Activist Should Be A Wake Up Call For Doomer Rhetoric
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Radicalized Anti-AI Activist Should Be A Wake Up Call For Doomer Rhetoric
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Bounty: has Hank Green ever platformed a non-white male, or has gushed over a non-white male in the tech/AI space who speaks about material harms caused by AI that's not "AI will become a god one day!"
Because I cannot find an example.
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Whatever we may feel about AI and its longterm usefulness, we can agree that #Anthropic and #OpenAI's regulatory capture strategy to kill #OpenSource doesn't benefit anyone but these companies.
We don't need another telecommunications style monopoly. We don't want OpenAI to become the Comcast of AI.
Why, then, is Hank Green pushing #AIDoomerism to his largely #Liberal audience?
I wrote about it here.
https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/hank-green-and-the-fantastical-tales-of-god-ais/
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President of #Signal, Meredith Whittaker (@Mer__edith ) calls the AI apocalypse a "A fantastical, adrenalizing ghost story is being used to hijack attention around what is the problem that regulation needs to solve"
I agree. And I think Hank Green would agree if he took a closer look at #AIdoomerism and the people and orgs he platformed in his last two videos on #AI.
I wrote about it here.
https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/hank-green-and-the-fantastical-tales-of-god-ais/
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Is Hank an AI-doomerist now?
I wrote about Hank Green, my trip to Savannah, and AI-Doomerism.
It's not lost on me that Hank is the internet's favorite science influencer. That's what makes his last two videos on AI so jarring.
https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/hank-green-and-the-fantastical-tales-of-god-ais/
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AI CEO: hey kids share your secrets with this robot who's your best friend
Privacy advocates: this is a problem
Journalists: The Robot Apocalypse Will Make Us All Superheroes Says Guy Obsessed With Eugenics
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RE: https://mastodon.world/@signalapp/115656522699401034
FYI Signal's CEO is calling out #AIdoomerism. Sign me up
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There's an important subtext at play here too that seems to work well. By cosplaying academics, AI-Doomerists are implying that smart people (ie liberals) have created, or will create, god.
It's not surprising to me that this narrative has fallen flat on conservatives, as the idea of playing god is sacrilegious.
So, unfortunately, the most sane observations about AI-Doomerism are coming from people we don't trust (for good reason)
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For at least a decade, since Trump took office, liberalism has been able to distinguish itself from conservatism using very eugenics-y ideals (i.e. intelligence, IQ, even superior bloodline by calling conservatives inbred).
To suggest liberals have fallen for their version of QAnon would be to challenge their very identity.
We know conservatives dug in their heels when we called them out for conspiracy. No reason to believe liberals would behave any different.
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Ironically, AI-Doomerist propaganda is written almost exclusively without exception by white men, while the women, Black and brown computer scientists warning us against these narratives are in discourse exile.
Most liberals don't even know these people exist.
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#AIDoomerism—the belief that corporations will one day create an AI god who will either build for us a utopia or cast us down to literal robot hell—isn't an ideology proliferating across right-wing circles, but through left-of-center personalities. Hank Green being the latest example.
As anecdotal evidence, on three occasions I've had left-leaning friends send to me earnestly Rationalist / AI Doomer propaganda believing these messages are somehow subversive and anti-big tech.
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#AIdoomerism relies on the left's obsession with using academia as a way to distinguish themselves from the lower classes.
AI Doomerists are exploiting the academia aesthetic through scholarly sounding blogs and corporate-funded studies disguised as academic journals.
California liberals never got over their obsession with eugenics, and it's being exploited to achieve regulatory capture— placing AI technology in the hands of a few billionaires.
https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/download/13636/11599?inline=1#p3
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Hank Green And The Case of The Missing Spine
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The more I understand #AIDoomerism the more I get this icky feeling that this is just a reskinned version of white supremacy.
Oh, all these white dudes who sell a modern mechanical Turk think they invented god? You don't say.
And it's so funny that defenders of the ideology are like, oh you don't believe me? What if I told you *these* people agree with me?
And it's just a list of the largest white guy IT circle jerk in all of history
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Hank Green proves the arc of AI-Doomerism is long, and it bends towards bullshit
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"In this article, I thought it would be worth looking at the views that Yudkowsky has espoused over the years. He’s suggested that murdering children up to 6 years old may be morally acceptable, that animals like pigs have no conscious experiences, that ASI (artificial superintelligence) could destroy humanity by synthesizing artificial mind-control bacteria, that nearly everyone on Earth should be “allowed to die” to prevent ASI from being built in the near future, that he might have secretly bombed Wuhan to prevent the Covid-19 pandemic, that he once “acquired a sex slave … who will earn her orgasms by completing math assignments,” and that he’d be willing to sacrifice “all of humanity” to create god-like superintelligences wandering the universe.
Yudkowsky also believes — like, really really believes — that he’s an absolute genius, and said back in 2000 that the reason he wakes up in the morning is because he’s “the only one who” can “save the world.” Yudkowsky is, to put it mildly, an egomaniac. Worse, he’s an egomaniac who’s frequently wrong despite being wildly overconfident about his ideas. He claims to be a paragon of rationality, but so far as I can tell he’s a fantastic example of the Dunning-Kruger effect paired with messianic levels of self-importance. As discussed below, he’s been prophesying the end of the world since the 1990s, though most of his prophesied dates of doom have passed without incident.
So, let’s get into it! I promise this will get weirder the more you read."
https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/eliezer-yudkowskys-long-history-of
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Great interview with @randomwalker and @sayashk on AI hype, AI doomerism and related issues.
> "the basic question is, how are you defending against hacking or tricking these AI models? It’s horrifying to me that companies are ignoring those security vulnerabilities that exist today and instead smoking their pipes and speculating about a future rogue AI."
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/15/2023/the-princeton-researchers-calling-out-ai-snake-oil
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“Just because people are experts in the core research of neural networks does not make them great forecasters, especially when it comes to societal questions or questions of the economy, or questions of geopolitics.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbot-risks-matt-clifford-talktv-interview-2023-s7npn5wcz #AIDoomerism -
Do you want to resist the AI hype?
@Iris has a great collection of podcasts, articles, books and papers.
#aihype #aidoomerism #chatgpt #tescreal
https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/01/29/critical-lenses-on-ai/
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Never forget what the #superintelligence #AIDoomerism #alignment and #xrisk stuff really is about: keeping decisive technology under corporate control.
They are loosing to the opensource sector and they know it. So now the propaganda is set to overdrive, with claims that real Open AI, by the people, for the people, under democratic control and not used to enrich some plutocrat is a world ending risk.
We are coming for your means of production. Be afraid of that.
https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither
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#AI #GenerativeAI #AIDoomerism: "AI Doomerism is becoming mainstream thanks to mass media, which drives our discussion about Generative AI from bad to worse, or from slightly insane to batshit crazy. Instead of out-of-control AI, we have out-of-control panic.
When a British tabloid headline screams, “Attack of the psycho chatbot,” it’s funny. When it’s followed by another front-page headline, “Psycho killer chatbots are befuddled by Wordle,” it’s even funnier. If this type of coverage stayed in the tabloids, which are known to be sensationalized, that was fine.
But recently, prestige news outlets have decided to promote the same level of populist scaremongering: The New York Times published “If we don’t master AI, it will master us” (by Harari, Harris & Raskin), and TIME magazine published “Be willing to destroy a rogue datacenter by airstrike” (by Yudkowsky).
In just a few days, we went from “governments should force a 6-month pause” (the petition from the Future of Life Institute) to “wait, it’s not enough, so data centers should be bombed.” Sadly, this is the narrative that gets media attention and shapes our already hyperbolic AI discourse.
In order to understand the rise of AI Doomerism, here are some influential figures responsible for mainstreaming doomsday scenarios. This is not the full list of AI doomers, just the ones that recently shaped the AI panic cycle (so I‘m focusing on them)."
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/14/the-ai-doomers-playbook/