Artificial intelligence deployment threatens markets
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Oxford professor Michael Wooldridge warned the commercial race to deploy AI agents risked a Hindenburg‑style disaster that could shatter global confidence, amid investor panic and market upheaval.
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by Paul Krugman Reposted by Tom Griffin
Sometimes you wonder. Bloomberg this morning saying that you can't both believe that AI is a big deal and that we're in a bubble. But you absolutely can! That's exactly the story of the tech bubble of the 90s, major economic impact but not big profits. Sigh.
February 16, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Sometimes you wonder. Bloomberg this morning saying that you can't both believe that AI is a big deal and that we're in a bubble. But you absolutely can! That's exactly the story of the tech bubble of the 90s, major economic impact but not big profits. Sigh.
Reposted by Brandon Whitcher
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says most white-collar work "will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months.”
If that’s true, it’s an economic earthquake.
We need a moratorium on new AI data centers to make sure AI works for workers, not just billionaires.
If that’s true, it’s an economic earthquake.
We need a moratorium on new AI data centers to make sure AI works for workers, not just billionaires.
February 17, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says most white-collar work "will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months.”
If that’s true, it’s an economic earthquake.
We need a moratorium on new AI data centers to make sure AI works for workers, not just billionaires.
If that’s true, it’s an economic earthquake.
We need a moratorium on new AI data centers to make sure AI works for workers, not just billionaires.
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NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....
Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!
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NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....
Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!
ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>
February 17, 2026 at 6:48 AM
OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA
NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....
Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!
ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>
NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....
Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!
ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>
I find this whole "AI agent wrote a hit piece" thing really troubling for reasons that have nothing to do with bots getting "mad" and "deciding" to take down open source contributors. theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
Why do we keep wanting to give AI so much agency that it lets humans off the hook??
Why do we keep wanting to give AI so much agency that it lets humans off the hook??
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…
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February 17, 2026 at 7:52 PM
I find this whole "AI agent wrote a hit piece" thing really troubling for reasons that have nothing to do with bots getting "mad" and "deciding" to take down open source contributors. theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
Why do we keep wanting to give AI so much agency that it lets humans off the hook??
Why do we keep wanting to give AI so much agency that it lets humans off the hook??
by Timnit Gebru
I dunno. I got my PhD from a lab called "The Stanford AI Lab" and I'm described as "an AI skeptic." Not an engineer, not a computer scientist, not someone who has built things that work and describes the harms of tech as a technologist, but as an "AI skeptic." Interesting.
February 16, 2026 at 7:04 PM
I dunno. I got my PhD from a lab called "The Stanford AI Lab" and I'm described as "an AI skeptic." Not an engineer, not a computer scientist, not someone who has built things that work and describes the harms of tech as a technologist, but as an "AI skeptic." Interesting.
Reposted by Margaret Mitchell, Timnit Gebru
Hey Benjamin, you're getting some suff wrong here, starting with framing me and my colleagues as "AI skeptics". It's true that we call BS on claims of AI, AGI, LLMs understanding etc. But "AI skeptic" is a term that resides within the AI booster's frame of view, not ours.
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February 16, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Hey Benjamin, you're getting some suff wrong here, starting with framing me and my colleagues as "AI skeptics". It's true that we call BS on claims of AI, AGI, LLMs understanding etc. But "AI skeptic" is a term that resides within the AI booster's frame of view, not ours.
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The financialisation of AI is just beginning www.economist.com/finance-and-...
The financialisation of AI is just beginning
Get ready for a new wave of securities, hedges and collateral
www.economist.com
February 17, 2026 at 8:33 PM
The financialisation of AI is just beginning www.economist.com/finance-and-...
"AI detectors" are themselves AI, and yet are endlessly trusted by people on here if they say that a newspaper article is AI.
AI detectors are snake oil. None of them reliably works. And UK broadsheet are not yet using AI to write articles. No, that link to the deal you found doesn't prove it.
AI detectors are snake oil. None of them reliably works. And UK broadsheet are not yet using AI to write articles. No, that link to the deal you found doesn't prove it.
Just because I keep seeing those "I checked this piece and it's written by AI" - this is an old article of mine, before AI was available. So could we not?
February 16, 2026 at 10:44 AM
"AI detectors" are themselves AI, and yet are endlessly trusted by people on here if they say that a newspaper article is AI.
AI detectors are snake oil. None of them reliably works. And UK broadsheet are not yet using AI to write articles. No, that link to the deal you found doesn't prove it.
AI detectors are snake oil. None of them reliably works. And UK broadsheet are not yet using AI to write articles. No, that link to the deal you found doesn't prove it.
Workers Are Afraid AI Will Take Their Jobs. They’re Missing the Bigger Danger. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
Workers Are Afraid AI Will Take Their Jobs. They’re Missing the Bigger Danger.
It isn’t whether artificial intelligence is going to replace them. It’s who will control the knowledge that companies capture from their employees.
www.wsj.com
February 17, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Workers Are Afraid AI Will Take Their Jobs. They’re Missing the Bigger Danger. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
by Dave O’Brien Reposted by Jack Stilgoe
Come at do a PhD with Sam Hind, Riza Batista-Navarro and me! "Artificial Inequality? AI and its impact on the UK Creative Industries" Deadline 30th March www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Artificial Inequality? AI and its impact on the UK Creative Industries (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Artificial Inequality? AI and its impact on the UK Creative Industries (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
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February 17, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Come at do a PhD with Sam Hind, Riza Batista-Navarro and me! "Artificial Inequality? AI and its impact on the UK Creative Industries" Deadline 30th March www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Reposted by Kevin Grant
This is an insane story start to finish. $65k a year "AI school" heavily surveils students, generates nonsensical questions that "does more harm than good," scrapes from competitors. Stores hours of video of children insecurely. Lots more:
www.404media.co/students-are...
www.404media.co/students-are...
'Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School
Leaked documents reveal the inner workings of Alpha School, which both the press and the Trump administration have applauded. The documents show Alpha School's AI is generating faulty lessons that som...
www.404media.co
February 17, 2026 at 3:49 PM
This is an insane story start to finish. $65k a year "AI school" heavily surveils students, generates nonsensical questions that "does more harm than good," scrapes from competitors. Stores hours of video of children insecurely. Lots more:
www.404media.co/students-are...
www.404media.co/students-are...