Citrini Research just published a viral scenario for AI causing economic collapse by 2028. It's rattled AI proponents.

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8. It's being implemented, and employees are being laid off, despite the IP theft and despite the

hallucinations and the lack of creativity. The smaller number of workers trying to work with AI and catch its errors are suffering burnout. If they're even trying to catch its errors - I saw an article earlier this month on software developers beginning to trust AI so much that about half who were surveyed weren't even bothering to check AI-generated code carefully.

So there's a lot of bad code out there. A lot of bad writing with accidental misinformation that the AI got wrong and humans didn't catch. A lot of inferior customer service.

Too many companies are willing to produce inferior products and hope customers will still settle for them, as long as the companies save money with cost reductions (that will not be passed along to consumers).

And AI agents are creating a nearly-new hype cycle, despite being even riskier to use than earlier generative AI.

I've actually been hoping for that bad AI-generated code to cause enough very expensive problems for enough companies that using AI for coding will suddenly become less popular. But it either hasn't happened yet or - just as likely - it was covered up when it happened, or at least blamed on humans.

We're graduating students who have less knowledge, and that WILL.impact companies, but they're hiring so many fewer recent grads that their employees were educated before the dumbing down by AI.

It's stupid for businesses to use those flawed, illegally trained AI models. But they're using them anyway.