But AI is also being hyped beyond its competences* by e.g. Hegseth, to the degree that Anthropic saying "we don't want to be used like this" resulted in an illegal attempt to punish Anthropic and ban any of their products in a far more general fashion. And Anthropic is only the least bad of the AI companies: the general consensus in safety circles is Anthropic's grade is "barely acceptable" in objective terms, everyone else is much worse.
Some people treat automated systems (both machine learning and simple computer systems) as infallible oracles; they're not infallible oracles, and people do die as a result. This already happens. So far, humans in the loop have caught and prevented massive disasters (Stanislav Petrov day is coming up soon).
Even though the personal disasters keep killing people, even though the big disasters have only been prevented by humans, even though the people making the automation (e.g. Anthropic) say "it's not good enough for that", there's people who keep pushing for full automation.
* it has a lot of competences, but it also has a lot of gaps. I can see inference suppliers being legitimately valued at multiple trillions of USD even today, but there's a big gap between that and the hundred-ish trillion dollar global economy and the combined market cap this would entail for an AI that could genuinely take over all jobs even if somehow "make more AI" wasn't among those jobs.
There's a big difference between "AI is creating misinformation and intelligence failures that could compound, especially given the fact that in a pre-AI world we came to the brink of nuclear warfare" vs the AI Doomerism of "Super-intelligent AI will kill us all in some mysterious way" of the AI "safety" TESCREAL cult, often used to hype up their own product capabilities.
In other cases, use of Palantir's AI-powered Project Maven lead to us using our long range $2.5M Tomahawk missiles to blow up an Iranian school along with over 100 schoolchildren, and humans in the loop did nothing to stop the accumulation of intelligence failures from the overreliance on AI. Palantir-funded politician JD Vance said he's doing God's work and "if that leads to the end times, OK".
No. Humans are going to start the war. First, the people who exaggerated AI abilities and donwplayed disadvantages. Who bribed Trump and stood behind him.
And then people who work for Trump and made series of bad decisions, because they wanted more of cheap lethality.
AI is not accountability sink. It is a tool. The ones to be blamed are Altman, Hegseth, Amodei, Musk, Thiel, Trump and those under them
It's the same pattern we see in predictive policing where "AI" is being used to manufacture probable cause, but instead of just using it to harass minorities as cops do, the people doing the policing are people actively trying to start Armageddon and the end times because they believe they are doing God's work. So they spend our long-range missiles stockpile to blow up schools because AI told them to.
And here we are… AI is Going to end all humans.
humans in the loop caught this, albeit way later than they ought to have
1. should never have reached the point of planes in the air
2. my smell test thinks the CCP is not so ignorant/arrogant to ship nuclear components to Iran right now
I expect AI will continute to be used inappropriately until the headlines read sonething between "thousands dead" and "millions dead".
I suppose we are in (an ai) doomerism media (hype cycle)
It's not impossible, of course.
But AI is also being hyped beyond its competences* by e.g. Hegseth, to the degree that Anthropic saying "we don't want to be used like this" resulted in an illegal attempt to punish Anthropic and ban any of their products in a far more general fashion. And Anthropic is only the least bad of the AI companies: the general consensus in safety circles is Anthropic's grade is "barely acceptable" in objective terms, everyone else is much worse.
Some people treat automated systems (both machine learning and simple computer systems) as infallible oracles; they're not infallible oracles, and people do die as a result. This already happens. So far, humans in the loop have caught and prevented massive disasters (Stanislav Petrov day is coming up soon).
Even though the personal disasters keep killing people, even though the big disasters have only been prevented by humans, even though the people making the automation (e.g. Anthropic) say "it's not good enough for that", there's people who keep pushing for full automation.
* it has a lot of competences, but it also has a lot of gaps. I can see inference suppliers being legitimately valued at multiple trillions of USD even today, but there's a big gap between that and the hundred-ish trillion dollar global economy and the combined market cap this would entail for an AI that could genuinely take over all jobs even if somehow "make more AI" wasn't among those jobs.
There's a big difference between "AI is creating misinformation and intelligence failures that could compound, especially given the fact that in a pre-AI world we came to the brink of nuclear warfare" vs the AI Doomerism of "Super-intelligent AI will kill us all in some mysterious way" of the AI "safety" TESCREAL cult, often used to hype up their own product capabilities.
In other cases, use of Palantir's AI-powered Project Maven lead to us using our long range $2.5M Tomahawk missiles to blow up an Iranian school along with over 100 schoolchildren, and humans in the loop did nothing to stop the accumulation of intelligence failures from the overreliance on AI. Palantir-funded politician JD Vance said he's doing God's work and "if that leads to the end times, OK".
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-iran-school-attack/
No. Humans are going to start the war. First, the people who exaggerated AI abilities and donwplayed disadvantages. Who bribed Trump and stood behind him.
And then people who work for Trump and made series of bad decisions, because they wanted more of cheap lethality.
AI is not accountability sink. It is a tool. The ones to be blamed are Altman, Hegseth, Amodei, Musk, Thiel, Trump and those under them
It's the same pattern we see in predictive policing where "AI" is being used to manufacture probable cause, but instead of just using it to harass minorities as cops do, the people doing the policing are people actively trying to start Armageddon and the end times because they believe they are doing God's work. So they spend our long-range missiles stockpile to blow up schools because AI told them to.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/02/jd-vance-god...
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-iran-school-attack/
It is really terrible.