{"id":23479,"date":"2026-06-11T10:37:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T08:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/ai-absolutism-is-breaking-our-brains-the-apocalyptic-future-were-being-sold-isnt-inevitable\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T10:37:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T08:37:47","slug":"ai-absolutism-is-breaking-our-brains-the-apocalyptic-future-were-being-sold-isnt-inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/ai-absolutism-is-breaking-our-brains-the-apocalyptic-future-were-being-sold-isnt-inevitable\/","title":{"rendered":"AI absolutism is breaking our brains. The apocalyptic future we\u2019re being sold isn\u2019t inevitable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nor is the dreamy promise that this tech will unlock boundless potential and productivity<\/p>\n<p>Everything 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<p>Already, AI is projected to generate nearly unfathomable amounts of revenue. In the last quarter of 2025, it represented nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/articles\/ai-investment-gdp-economy-e19c6d70\">60% of the growth<\/a> in the US economy. Already, pundits and economists wring their hands about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/ai-bubble-will-burst\/\">what calamity will befall us<\/a> if and when the AI bubble bursts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jun\/11\/ai-absolutism-apocalyptic-future\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ac2e693428488f04eed7ec505aaf08dd9b66c08a\/1_0_2999_2400\/master\/2999.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1374d01d1f99ce72765b4f388d3a70e5\" title=\"AI absolutism is breaking our brains. The apocalyptic future we\u2019re being sold isn\u2019t inevitable\" \/>Nor is the dreamy promise that this tech will unlock boundless potential and productivity<br \/>\nEverything 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.<br \/>\nAlready, 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. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nor is the dreamy promise that this tech will unlock boundless potential and productivity Everything 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 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/ai-absolutism-is-breaking-our-brains-the-apocalyptic-future-were-being-sold-isnt-inevitable\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI absolutism is breaking our brains. The apocalyptic future we\u2019re being sold isn\u2019t inevitable<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23480,"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\/23479"}],"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=23479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}