Archive - AI PANIC

AI Coverage's Blind Spot

Originally published in FreeThink magazine.

May 16 •

Nirit Weiss-Blatt

April 2025

The Doomers’ Dilemma

How to adapt to the current AI race?

Apr 14 •

Nirit Weiss-Blatt

January 2025

The “AI Existential Risk” Industrial Complex

This is your guide to the growing “AI Existential Risk” ecosystem.

Jan 10 •

Nirit Weiss-Blatt

December 2024

2024: AI Panic Flooded The Zone, Leading To A Backlash

Repost from Techdirt

Dec 31, 2024 •

Nirit Weiss-Blatt

September 2024

When Effective Altruism Takes a Dark Turn

Sep 7, 2024 •

Nirit Weiss-Blatt

June 2024

The Role of AI Metaphors in Shaping Regulations

Jun 12, 2024 •

Nirit Weiss-Blatt

April 2024

Effective Altruism’s Bait-and-Switch: From Global Poverty to AI Doomerism

Repost from Techdirt.

Apr 29, 2024 •

Nirit Weiss-Blatt

Panic-as-a-Business is Expanding

An update to the “Ultimate Guide to ‘AI Existential Risk’ Ecosystem”

Apr 15, 2024 •

Nirit Weiss-Blatt

March 2024

The $665M Shitcoin Donation to the Future of Life Institute

What we currently know: Getting the money | The reporting | The money trail.

Mar 30, 2024 •

Nirit Weiss-Blatt

December 2023

Effective Altruism Funded the “AI Existential Risk” Ecosystem with Half a Billion Dollars

The “AI Existential Safety” field did not arise organically. Effective Altruism invested $500 million in its growth and expansion.

Dec 5, 2023 •

Nirit Weiss-Blatt

Ultimate Guide to “AI Existential Risk” Ecosystem

By investing half a billion dollars, Effective Altruism has built a thriving ecosystem around the “AI Existential Risk” (human extinction from AI…

Dec 5, 2023 •

Nirit Weiss-Blatt

October 2023

The AI Panic Campaign – part 2

The x-risk campaign is primarily aimed at policymakers. The goal is to persuade them to surveil and criminalize AI development.

Oct 15, 2023 •

Nirit Weiss-Blatt

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