79
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2026
79 points (90.7% liked)
TechTakes
2749 readers
181 users here now
Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.
For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Is it just me or does this "AI Doomsday" talk seem like coordinated messaging?
Chatbots that are smart enough to destroy humanity would be really impressive, right? "Powerful enough to change the world" and "powerful enough to destroy the world" are similar claims and maybe they're switching to the second one because nobody is buying the first anymore.
@cstross @supersquirrel @yesman But who's buying the latter? Those already willing and able to destroy are already stoking the AI money furnace. What do the rest of us get out of consenting to stoke it, too, against our own best interest?
@Yolfen @supersquirrel @yesman It's aimed at the press and politicians. LLM model progress is visibly stalling so the next step is for OpenAI and Anthropic to go "Booga-booga-AI DOOM" and push for a regulatory environment that freezes out small upstart competitors/Chinese AI firms/self-hosted models. It's all about creating and exploiting a rental monopoly.
The emerging talk about "AI Chornobyl" is quite disturbing with regards to what this booga-booga gonna look like. If they don't get enough booga booga from this stupid hacking incident, then what?
What's really disturbing to me is that now they are talking about the power grid as a target. It's not like their usual biblical stuff about plagues and locusts. Of course, power grid can't be that insecure, or Iran would've went for it already, but they have privileged access courtesy of all the use of chatbots to run shell commands etc.