AI will crash. OpenAI is in trouble. But also, AI is going to be so good that America isn't ready for AI at work.
I keep seeing the same pattern in these mainstream news outlets. They'll write about how there is an AI bubble and it's about to collapse. AI hallucinates too much to be useful. OpenAI is a scam. There is too much debt to build AI. AI isn't intelligent. AI isn't all the smart. When a new breakthrough happens, it becomes AI is about to take most jobs. AI is becoming god-like. AI needs to be stopped.
That is because The Atlantic is not a monolithic hive mind, but employs journalists of different persuasions, who each cover their story from their own world view.
So what you’re seeing is not The Atlantic being hypocritical, or flip floppy, but them covering the same topic from multiple points of view.
They do not cover the same story with different views. If they did, they would publish 2 stories that contradict in message simultaneously. They don't do this.
They won't publish a story that says AI is about to crash and another that says AI is about to make everyone jobless at the same time. They spread it apart.
Therefore, they want readers to think that they have a united opinion.
According to you the only definition of “covering something with multiple points of view” is if you provide different perspectives in the same time period.
But really, you’re arguing the semantics of “covering multiple points of view”. Whether your restrictive opinion about that is right or not, you completely ignored the actual substance of what the person you replied to said. That the Atlantic is not a monolith. It employs different people who bring different viewpoints. And they may write different articles with different perspectives and/or conclusions, often completely opposing ones at the same or different times.
And your final conclusion does not follow from anything you’ve said or any other evidence presented.
We actually know what publications that try to present a single viewpoint look like. The most famous example of this is the Economist, which as a key part of this ethos refuses to have bylines for their articles. The Atlantic, on the other hand, looks nothing like that. Every article is bylined with details on each author’s bio.
You’re fooling yourself if you think The Atlantic does not present a united front. They might change that front from time to time when they realize they are wrong.
They were all bearish in 2025. Now they are bullish.
Just because they have different authors doesn’t mean they can’t control the narrative. They can easily choose to only publish bearish articles or videos versa.
One doesn’t exclude another - stock market will crush even harder if AI will bee too smart - high unemployment will cause demand drop across the board so AI companies will loose most paying customers and will have no chances to recoup investments (even if the chain is long, economy as a whole depends on people paying for goods and services).
I generally agree with the article. We can debate timing, but whether it is 1 year away or 10 years away, a major rise in employment is not something America is prepared for. No politicians even talk about this threat seriously, let alone come up with solutions for it. But in a world of higher automation and reduced need for labor, the only practical solution is to redistribute wealth and power in the country. Otherwise, those who enter this new era with wealth or power will be in a permanent ruling class while others suffer.
> code—really code, not just copy-paste from Stack Overflow—with the precision of a top engineer.
Having seen the mistakes it still makes in my industry, I can't take as factual the other claims the article makes about what AI does.
Don't worry, Gell-Mann amnesia will resolve this uncomfortable moment for you soon enough!
Typical AI bro spotted - so it'd be interesting to know your trade.
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Also The Atlantic:
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/data-centers-...
OpenAI Is in Trouble
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/openai-losing...
AI will crash. OpenAI is in trouble. But also, AI is going to be so good that America isn't ready for AI at work.
I keep seeing the same pattern in these mainstream news outlets. They'll write about how there is an AI bubble and it's about to collapse. AI hallucinates too much to be useful. OpenAI is a scam. There is too much debt to build AI. AI isn't intelligent. AI isn't all the smart. When a new breakthrough happens, it becomes AI is about to take most jobs. AI is becoming god-like. AI needs to be stopped.
That is because The Atlantic is not a monolithic hive mind, but employs journalists of different persuasions, who each cover their story from their own world view. So what you’re seeing is not The Atlantic being hypocritical, or flip floppy, but them covering the same topic from multiple points of view.
They do not cover the same story with different views. If they did, they would publish 2 stories that contradict in message simultaneously. They don't do this.
They won't publish a story that says AI is about to crash and another that says AI is about to make everyone jobless at the same time. They spread it apart.
Therefore, they want readers to think that they have a united opinion.
According to you the only definition of “covering something with multiple points of view” is if you provide different perspectives in the same time period.
But really, you’re arguing the semantics of “covering multiple points of view”. Whether your restrictive opinion about that is right or not, you completely ignored the actual substance of what the person you replied to said. That the Atlantic is not a monolith. It employs different people who bring different viewpoints. And they may write different articles with different perspectives and/or conclusions, often completely opposing ones at the same or different times.
And your final conclusion does not follow from anything you’ve said or any other evidence presented.
We actually know what publications that try to present a single viewpoint look like. The most famous example of this is the Economist, which as a key part of this ethos refuses to have bylines for their articles. The Atlantic, on the other hand, looks nothing like that. Every article is bylined with details on each author’s bio.
You’re fooling yourself if you think The Atlantic does not present a united front. They might change that front from time to time when they realize they are wrong.
They were all bearish in 2025. Now they are bullish.
Just because they have different authors doesn’t mean they can’t control the narrative. They can easily choose to only publish bearish articles or videos versa.
One doesn’t exclude another - stock market will crush even harder if AI will bee too smart - high unemployment will cause demand drop across the board so AI companies will loose most paying customers and will have no chances to recoup investments (even if the chain is long, economy as a whole depends on people paying for goods and services).
AI becomes so good that it renders mass unemployment won't crash the stock market.
The stock market does not care if everyone is employed. It only cares if the companies are making more profit.
And there will no profit because there will be no customers.
It's because they optimize for attention over truth.
LLM-generated blogslop is getting published in The Atlantic now?
Using AI to generate articles lamenting about AI.
Could you explain more thoroughly? What points to the article being generated with AI?
This is the new fake news, now everything that doesn't go well is AI generated.
The worst is people who use AI to generate articles about how AI is in a bubble.
This guy for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46985948
AI Slop or not, these doomer articles have more than a grain of truth and you as a knowledge worker knows “Something is happening”.
I generally agree with the article. We can debate timing, but whether it is 1 year away or 10 years away, a major rise in employment is not something America is prepared for. No politicians even talk about this threat seriously, let alone come up with solutions for it. But in a world of higher automation and reduced need for labor, the only practical solution is to redistribute wealth and power in the country. Otherwise, those who enter this new era with wealth or power will be in a permanent ruling class while others suffer.
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