{"id":22107,"date":"2026-02-24T15:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/a-feedback-loop-with-no-brake-how-an-ai-doomsday-report-has-rattled-markets\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T15:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:37:16","slug":"a-feedback-loop-with-no-brake-how-an-ai-doomsday-report-has-rattled-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/a-feedback-loop-with-no-brake-how-an-ai-doomsday-report-has-rattled-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A feedback loop with no brake\u2019: how an AI doomsday report has rattled markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scenario posted on Substack envisages a near-future in which autonomous systems upend the entire US economy<\/p>\n<p>US stock markets have been hit by a further wave of AI jitters, this time from yet another viral \u2013 and completely speculative \u2013 warning about the impact of the technology on the world\u2019s largest economy.<\/p>\n<p>The latest foreboding is from Citrini Research, a little-known US firm that provides insights on \u201ctransformative \u2018megatrends\u2019\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citriniresearch.com\/p\/2028gic\">Its post on Substack<\/a>, which it called a \u201cscenario, not a prediction\u201d, rattled investors by portraying a near-future in which autonomous AI systems \u2013 or agents \u2013 upend the entire US economy, from jobs to markets and mortgages.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/feb\/24\/feedback-loop-no-brake-how-ai-doomsday-report-rattled-markets\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/577ef257078e9f5d8ae085dbf96aafa2d2ee2bc4\/38_0_5000_4001\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c22605ebbe97fc1817c1f127f46751b2\" title=\"\u2018A feedback loop with no brake\u2019: how an AI doomsday report has rattled markets\" \/>Scenario posted on Substack envisages a near-future in which autonomous systems upend the entire US economy<br \/>\nUS stock markets have been hit by a further wave of AI jitters, this time from yet another viral \u2013 and completely speculative \u2013 warning about the impact of the technology on the world\u2019s largest economy.<br \/>\nThe latest foreboding is from Citrini Research, a little-known US firm that provides insights on \u201ctransformative \u2018megatrends\u2019\u201d. Its post on Substack, which it called a \u201cscenario, not a prediction\u201d, rattled investors by portraying a near-future in which autonomous AI systems \u2013 or agents \u2013 upend the entire US economy, from jobs to markets and mortgages. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scenario posted on Substack envisages a near-future in which autonomous systems upend the entire US economy US stock markets have been hit by a further wave of AI jitters, this time from yet another viral \u2013 and completely speculative \u2013 warning about the impact of the technology on the world\u2019s largest economy. The latest foreboding &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/a-feedback-loop-with-no-brake-how-an-ai-doomsday-report-has-rattled-markets\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018A feedback loop with no brake\u2019: how an AI doomsday report has rattled markets<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}