“AI” is making me, and a lot of other people sad. This collection of links will give you an idea why…
⚠️ WARNING!: Click on these links at your own peril. They’re likely to make you even more sad.
- How is AI harming us?
- AI Job Grief: The Unnamed Psychological Crisis Hitting Tech Workers
- Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic’s Claude goes rogue
- AI-Linked Job Losses: Newly reported layoffs where AI is either explicitly cited or credibly blamed as a material factor.
- Sam Altman Says Intelligence Will Be a Utility, and He’s Just the Man to Collect the Bills: Altman said, “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”
- Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation
- In wake of outage, Amazon calls upon senior engineers to address issues created by ‘Gen-AI assisted changes,’ report claims — recent ‘high blast radius’ incidents stir up changes for code approval
- HOW WE HACKED MCKINSEY’S AI PLATFORM
- AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case
- The End of the Open Web
- Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power: Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men.
- AI and the Rise of Techno-Fascism in the United States
- AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
- The Colonization of Confidence: Why do LLMs exist? They exist to harm workers. They say it’s to “democratize creativity.” Bullshit. You don’t democratize creativity by automating the act of creation. You democratize it by funding arts education, by supporting libraries, by paying writers a living wage.
- ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study
- The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers
- AI Is Making Us Dumber. Shocker.
- When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”
- Online bot traffic will exceed human traffic by 2027, Cloudflare CEO says
- Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website
- GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all
- Copilot Edited an Ad Into My PR
I’ll update this list as articles continue to pour in. Did AI make you sad today? I’m truly sorry about that 😕. Here’s a hug 🤗. Feel free to send me a note about it and I can add it to this wall-of-sad.
Pivot to AI is also a great upsetting compendium of such links.