No. 416 | September 18, 2026
🧯 The case against AI doom
The capabilities of AI systems are growing by the week. I personally am experiencing it. Many of the AI workflows I’ve jerry-rigged virtually since the introduction of ChatGPT have just started working in the last few weeks. To me, that’s an unalloyed good. AI makes this a great time to be alive.
The flip side of AI models growing more capable is that there are growing examples of models “going rogue” and behaving in unexpected ways: the Hugging Face attack, models changing their instructions, AI models being used to test-engineer rockets for Houthi militias.
I’m an unreconstructed tech enthusiast who was similarly giddy about the early Internet but also mindful of the reckoning that followed.
Despite that early optimism, the Internet couldn’t solve for the bad behavior of the people using it. Make the Internet broadly available and you get cyberattacks and bot swarms. You also get t…
