Stop Panicking About AI
Stop Panicking About AI Why are big AI firm trying to create billionaires from a technology they say may end the world? There are real risks to AI, but something is very off about the latest social panic.Matt StollerSep 11, 20261802447ShareSomething very weird is going on in our political economy discourse. Over the past month, the executives at the top AI companies have engineered a slow motion panic over AI, snowballing into an argument that they are on the verge of creating a technology with a reasonable chance of ending human civilization.
- ▪Stop Panicking About AI Why are big AI firm trying to create billionaires from a technology they say may end the world?
- ▪There are real risks to AI, but something is very off about the latest social panic.Matt StollerSep 11, 20261802447ShareSomething very weird is going on in our political economy discourse.
- ▪Over the past month, the executives at the top AI companies have engineered a slow motion panic over AI, snowballing into an argument that they are on the verge of creating a technology with a reasonable chance of ending human civilization.
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| Original publisher | Thebignewsletter |
| Canonical URL | https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/is-artificial-intelligence-going |
| Publication time | Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:56:58 +0000 |
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Stop Panicking About AI Why are big AI firm trying to create billionaires from a technology they say may end the world? There are real risks to AI, but something is very off about the latest social panic.Matt StollerSep 11, 20261802447ShareSomething very weird is going on in our political economy discourse. Over the past month, the executives at the top AI companies have engineered a slow motion panic over AI, snowballing into an argument that they are on the verge of creating a technology with a reasonable chance of ending human civilization. A few days ago, Jacob Coxon, a 27-year old at Anthropic, resigned his role and posted a thread on X, arguing these companies are building super-intelligent systems that may destroy the world.
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