{"id":270082,"date":"2026-06-11T06:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/ai-absolutism-is-breaking-our-brains-the-apocalyptic-future-were-being-sold-isnt-inevitable-ai-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T06:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:45:11","slug":"ai-absolutism-is-breaking-our-brains-the-apocalyptic-future-were-being-sold-isnt-inevitable-ai-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/ai-absolutism-is-breaking-our-brains-the-apocalyptic-future-were-being-sold-isnt-inevitable-ai-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"AI absolutism is breaking our brains. The apocalyptic future we\u2019re being sold isn\u2019t inevitable | AI (artificial intelligence)"},"content":{"rendered":"

AI absolutism is breaking our brains. The apocalyptic future we\u2019re being sold isn\u2019t inevitable | AI (artificial intelligence)<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jun\/11\/ai-absolutism-apocalyptic-future<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-11 06:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n

E<\/span>verything we hear about artificial intelligence is conflicting, and hearing about it feels inescapable. AI is terrible. AI is wonderful. It will break the world. It will transform the future. It\u2019s essential to embrace it. It\u2019s a moral imperative to abstain from using it.<\/p>\n

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Already, AI is projected to generate nearly unfathomable amounts of revenue. In the last quarter of 2025, it represented nearly 60% of the growth in the US economy. Already, pundits and economists wring their hands about what calamity will befall us if and when the AI bubble bursts.<\/p>\n

Since ChatGPT, the first of the large language models, was released in late 2022, more than half a million workers in the tech industry alone have lost their jobs. Any mention of AI tends to be accompanied by warnings that deeper jobs cuts across many more industries are coming for us all. Jensen Huang, CEO of chip giant Nvidia, said in 2025: \u201cEvery job will be affected, and immediately. It is unquestionable. You\u2019re not going to lose your job to an AI, but you\u2019re going to lose your job to someone who uses AI.\u201d In January, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicted: \u201cAI isn\u2019t a substitute for specific human jobs but rather a general labor substitute for humans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Increasingly, people young and old flock to a new gold rush in Silicon Valley to toil away on AI-fueled startups. Many of them are driven less by idealistic enthusiasm and more by the dread of missing a ticket for the last train to wealth \u2013 and getting stuck forever in the \u201cpermanent underclass\u201d that, with any luck, they themselves will create.<\/p>\n

What all these divergently apocalyptic ideas hold in common is their AI absolutism \u2013 a way of seeing AI as a godlike force that will either hasten a golden age of productivity and innovation, or will doom humanity. It mirrors the political polarization of our era and even the…<\/p>\n

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