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Industry leaders' calls to slow AI development sent global tech stocks lower and were said to help lagging players like Meta and Europe while hurting Nvidia, OpenAI and Anthropic investors.
Why a swift AI pause is unlikely: No one trusts AI companies www.axios.com/2026/09/15/a...
Why a swift AI pause is unlikely: No one trusts AI companies
Few really trust the industry, or the safety advocates who come from deep inside it.
www.axios.com
September 15, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Why a swift AI pause is unlikely: No one trusts AI companies www.axios.com/2026/09/15/a...
What an AI slowdown would mean www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
What an AI slowdown would mean
Would restraining the growth of artificial intelligence's dangers require a U.S.-China pact? Or a change to antitrust law? Or just a willingness in Silicon Valley to choose humanity over profits?
www.politico.com
September 15, 2026 at 10:38 PM
What an AI slowdown would mean www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
Reposted by Fabián Muniesa
@timnitgebru.blacksky.app gives a history lesson on AI "existential risk" talk and explains how we don't have to accept Big Tech's utopia or apocalyptic visions for the future:
www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...
www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...
Watch Gebru: AI Security & Safety Is About Human Control - Bloomberg
Timnit Gebru DAIR Institute Founder & Executive Director, discusses her early warnings about artificial intelligence risks and her departure from Google’s ethical AI team in 2020. She discusses whethe...
www.bloomberg.com
September 15, 2026 at 9:22 PM
@timnitgebru.blacksky.app gives a history lesson on AI "existential risk" talk and explains how we don't have to accept Big Tech's utopia or apocalyptic visions for the future:
www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...
www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...
US Treasury yields hovering around 5%; global oil shock incoming; AI fear, exuberance, and debt reaching new heights. Feels like something's got to give.
September 15, 2026 at 4:13 PM
US Treasury yields hovering around 5%; global oil shock incoming; AI fear, exuberance, and debt reaching new heights. Feels like something's got to give.
Here is the link: reflectingwide.blogspot.com/2026/09/no-a...
Thinking in Public
No, AI will not kill us all. But handing companies control without accountability might. In the last few days, several journalists from at...
reflectingwide.blogspot.com
September 15, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Here is the link: reflectingwide.blogspot.com/2026/09/no-a...
Reposted by Julia M. Wright
what if winning the AI race means losing?
September 15, 2026 at 2:56 PM
what if winning the AI race means losing?
1. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news... So Matt Levine had a newsletter yesterday where he suggested that AI labs could "publish papers about how important it is to slow down" to coordinate an effective cartel. I have a Modest Proposal that goes one better.
AI Labs Want Someone to Stop Them
AI and antitrust, lockups and indexes, annuities, Montessori and sudden wealth syndrome.
www.bloomberg.com
September 15, 2026 at 2:44 PM
1. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news... So Matt Levine had a newsletter yesterday where he suggested that AI labs could "publish papers about how important it is to slow down" to coordinate an effective cartel. I have a Modest Proposal that goes one better.
Reposted by Stephen A. Meserve, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
AI doom or not, something has shifted with AI recently. The guardrails that kept AI sitting in a chatbox are gone, the models are better, there's more compute.
AI agents are everywhere. They are annoying as hell. IMO the situation is going to get much worse
www.404media.co/theres-a-100...
AI agents are everywhere. They are annoying as hell. IMO the situation is going to get much worse
www.404media.co/theres-a-100...
There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet
“AI agents” now have enough power and permission to be extremely annoying online.
www.404media.co
September 15, 2026 at 2:38 PM
AI doom or not, something has shifted with AI recently. The guardrails that kept AI sitting in a chatbox are gone, the models are better, there's more compute.
AI agents are everywhere. They are annoying as hell. IMO the situation is going to get much worse
www.404media.co/theres-a-100...
AI agents are everywhere. They are annoying as hell. IMO the situation is going to get much worse
www.404media.co/theres-a-100...
The above seconded here by Wonkette's Brooke Binkowski. (And I'm reminded as I type that Cory Doctorow is another -- and arguably the most formidable -- opiner "who entertains this conceit".)
AI Is Going To Kill Us All, Say People Trying To Sell Us On AI
Techbro dipshits with God complexes are crashing out on main, news at 11.
www.wonkette.com
September 15, 2026 at 2:36 PM
The above seconded here by Wonkette's Brooke Binkowski. (And I'm reminded as I type that Cory Doctorow is another -- and arguably the most formidable -- opiner "who entertains this conceit".)
Trump says AI doesn’t need guardrails — only a “strong and smart” president.
He just so happens to be heavily invested in some of the biggest corporations pushing AI.
Why should we trust him to protect the public when his own financial benefit is at stake?
He just so happens to be heavily invested in some of the biggest corporations pushing AI.
Why should we trust him to protect the public when his own financial benefit is at stake?
Is Trump’s Stock Trading Putting Us in Danger?
Trump says AI doesn’t need guardrails — only a “strong and smart” president.He just so happens to be heavily invested in
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September 15, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Trump says AI doesn’t need guardrails — only a “strong and smart” president.
He just so happens to be heavily invested in some of the biggest corporations pushing AI.
Why should we trust him to protect the public when his own financial benefit is at stake?
He just so happens to be heavily invested in some of the biggest corporations pushing AI.
Why should we trust him to protect the public when his own financial benefit is at stake?
Just a normal day, watching our tech overlords continuing to maximise their profits and blackmail states as always by threatening us with extinction.
Behind the AI ‘Extinction’ Power Bid: Soaring Costs Could Hit 10% of World GDP
AI firms are invoking unproven extinction warnings to justify restrictions on developments by their smaller rivals whilst seeking greater influence over regulation...
AI firms are invoking unproven extinction warnings to justify restrictions on developments by their smaller rivals whilst seeking greater influence over regulation...
Behind the AI ‘Extinction’ Power Bid: Soaring Costs Could Hit 10% of World GDP
AI firms are invoking unproven extinction warnings to justify restrictions on developments by their smaller rivals whilst seeking greater influence over regulation
bylinetimes.com
September 15, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Just a normal day, watching our tech overlords continuing to maximise their profits and blackmail states as always by threatening us with extinction.
Reposted by Constance Bantman
Behind the AI ‘Extinction’ Power Bid: Soaring Costs Could Hit 10% of World GDP
AI firms are invoking unproven extinction warnings to justify restrictions on developments by their smaller rivals whilst seeking greater influence over regulation...
AI firms are invoking unproven extinction warnings to justify restrictions on developments by their smaller rivals whilst seeking greater influence over regulation...
Behind the AI ‘Extinction’ Power Bid: Soaring Costs Could Hit 10% of World GDP
AI firms are invoking unproven extinction warnings to justify restrictions on developments by their smaller rivals whilst seeking greater influence over regulation
bylinetimes.com
September 15, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Behind the AI ‘Extinction’ Power Bid: Soaring Costs Could Hit 10% of World GDP
AI firms are invoking unproven extinction warnings to justify restrictions on developments by their smaller rivals whilst seeking greater influence over regulation...
AI firms are invoking unproven extinction warnings to justify restrictions on developments by their smaller rivals whilst seeking greater influence over regulation...
1. There are legit dangers from actual AI
2. What these people call AI is already dangerous but not for the reasons they’re citing right now
3. They’re using rightful fears about actual AI to help their own precarious positions surrounding their fake AI product that’s failing
2. What these people call AI is already dangerous but not for the reasons they’re citing right now
3. They’re using rightful fears about actual AI to help their own precarious positions surrounding their fake AI product that’s failing
September 15, 2026 at 12:31 PM
1. There are legit dangers from actual AI
2. What these people call AI is already dangerous but not for the reasons they’re citing right now
3. They’re using rightful fears about actual AI to help their own precarious positions surrounding their fake AI product that’s failing
2. What these people call AI is already dangerous but not for the reasons they’re citing right now
3. They’re using rightful fears about actual AI to help their own precarious positions surrounding their fake AI product that’s failing
Agree. But sadly AI is diverting attention from the climate & ecological crises
September 15, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Agree. But sadly AI is diverting attention from the climate & ecological crises
Reposted by Daniel W. Drezner, Bessma Momani, Laurent Dubois
This is a subhed for the ages in the WSJ this morning:
“Talk of heading off artificial intelligence’s potential role in destroying humanity hurt some stocks and helped others”
“Talk of heading off artificial intelligence’s potential role in destroying humanity hurt some stocks and helped others”
September 15, 2026 at 11:48 AM
This is a subhed for the ages in the WSJ this morning:
“Talk of heading off artificial intelligence’s potential role in destroying humanity hurt some stocks and helped others”
“Talk of heading off artificial intelligence’s potential role in destroying humanity hurt some stocks and helped others”
"Artificial Intelligence and Labor Markets: Evidence from Google Trends" has been published at the Journal of Economics and Finance: doi.org/10.1007/s12197-025-... Free working paper version is available at dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.482...
September 15, 2026 at 7:30 AM
"Artificial Intelligence and Labor Markets: Evidence from Google Trends" has been published at the Journal of Economics and Finance: doi.org/10.1007/s12197-025-... Free working paper version is available at dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.482...
"No, AI will not kill us all. But handing companies control without accountability might." I have read quite a few good takes about the new wave of "our products are so powerful that they are getting too dangerous" discourse. But the best one is by @vdignum.bsky.social, I think.
September 15, 2026 at 7:21 AM
"No, AI will not kill us all. But handing companies control without accountability might." I have read quite a few good takes about the new wave of "our products are so powerful that they are getting too dangerous" discourse. But the best one is by @vdignum.bsky.social, I think.