AI Doomsday Bullshit Is Getting Tired
AI Doomsday Bullshit Is Getting Tired The "rogue AI" narrative continues to help obscure very ugly and avoidable human failures. Regular posts will return in mid-August as we stumble together toward the midterms. Every few weeks like clockwork you'll see a story about how AI (aka software) slipped its leash and independently decided to do something very naughty.
- ▪AI Doomsday Bullshit Is Getting Tired The "rogue AI" narrative continues to help obscure very ugly and avoidable human failures.
- ▪Regular posts will return in mid-August as we stumble together toward the midterms.
- ▪Every few weeks like clockwork you'll see a story about how AI (aka software) slipped its leash and independently decided to do something very naughty.
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| Original publisher | The Fine Print* |
| Canonical URL | https://karlbode.com/ai-doomsday-bullshit-is-getting-tired/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:22:40 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-29T15:25:57.248Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-29T15:25:57.248Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
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| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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AI Doomsday Bullshit Is Getting Tired The "rogue AI" narrative continues to help obscure very ugly and avoidable human failures. Karl Bode 29 Jul 2026 • 6 min read Share Photo by Logan Voss / Unsplash Just a quick programming note: the newsletter will be on hiatus the next two weeks as I spend time with family in the wake of my father's recent passing. I appreciate your patience and readership. Regular posts will return in mid-August as we stumble together toward the midterms. Every few weeks like clockwork you'll see a story about how AI (aka software) slipped its leash and independently decided to do something very naughty.
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