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Am I the only one who thinks recent AI "doomsday" news is just a disguised pitch for more funding?

This story is from 2026-09-16. It is preserved in the archive; the latest stories are on the live feed.

Recently, my feed has been flooded with alarmist AI news: AI choosing nuclear genocide in war games, AI blackmailing engineers to avoid being shut down, and the usual "Skynet is here" comments. I’m just trying to make sense of it, but the more you look into these "experiments," the more they lack b…

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  1. 2026-09-17 10:13 · r/LocalLLM
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  2. 2026-09-16 00:32 · r/artificial
    Am I the only one who thinks recent AI "doomsday" news is just a disguised pitch for more funding?

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