Kevin Roose(@kevinroose):Millennium prize problems are falling, rogue agent swarms are doing heists, lab employees are begging for a slowdown…and the most popular AI videos on YouTube are from cope merchants saying it’s all a scam that’s about to collapse. I get why the message is resonating! It’s comforting to think that the AI is all fake bullshit and the doomers are weird and wrong and life will go back to normal after the bubble pops. But if it doesn’t, these people are doing their audiences a profound disservice.

2026.09.09 03:17

Millennium prize problems are falling, rogue agent swarms are doing heists, lab employees are begging for a slowdown…and the most popular AI videos on YouTube are from cope merchants saying it’s all a scam that’s about to collapse. I get why the message is resonating! It’s comforting to think that the AI is all fake bullshit and the doomers are weird and wrong and life will go back to normal after the bubble pops. But if it doesn’t, these people are doing their audiences a profound disservice.