Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The way AI is going to “kill everyone” is just by manufacturing consent for ever worse outcomes & conditions, like many governments do. It is a governing technology after all. And like bureaucracy it launders responsibility so the people & institutions who deploy it aren’t accountable for the harms 13681229
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This process has already started, of course. And all the headlines saying that the doom is all but inevitable are just softening up the public to shrug their shoulders at each incremental negative outcome and give corporations infinitely more leeway to “fix” their “mistakes” 223347
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 10/09/2026That is exactly right. The "inevitable" claim being pushed is meant to make people feel helpless. I am pleased to see the counter-idea of encouraging small personal actions getting significant traction. 0123
Two-meter Matt @2metermatt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026bsky.app/profile/dday...David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.socialQuite a leap from "AI will destroy humanity" to "and the way to fix it is to give us more money" in 24 hours. If they want to babble about their destructive power as a marketing tool, put risk weights on them like we do for banks www.politico.com/news/2026/09...politico.comSam Altman pitches utilities on AI grid defenseThe previously unreported meetings have come as utility companies grapple the risks posed to the grid by autonomous hacks. 022