{"slug": "doomsday-ai", "title": "Doomsday AI?", "summary": "A new wave of 'Doomsday Prophets' is emerging around generative AI, warning that frontier models will lead to unparalleled unemployment, poverty, and uncontrolled cybercrime, according to a Fireworks AI analysis. The piece argues that such fears are historically unfounded, as humans have always triumphed over technologies they created, and notes that AI-inflated expectations have previously triggered two major 'AI Winter' periods.", "body_md": "We’re living a very special moment in Generative Artificial Intelligence. Frontier models, [including soon-to-be open-weight ones](https://fireworks.ai/blog/kimik3-fable), are becoming very capable and effective at sustaining days-long tasks (burning several million tokens along the way).\n\nAI-inflated expectations are not new. The history clearly marks at least two major [“AI Winter”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter) periods where Artificial Intelligence as a practice field retracted due to limited real-value creation — or simply very high inflated expectations.\n\nWith the current advancements, what is happening is a bit different: Instead of skeptics, **we’re seeing the rise of Doomsday Prophets of GenAI**. Those think current GenAI systems are the *ultimate and final stage* of technology evolution. Those also think there will be one lab/model to rule them all. And they also believe the only possible outcome is unparalleled unemployment, poverty, and uncontrolled cybercrime. In essence, *they don’t believe humans will triumph over a technology humans had created*. **Spoiler: that never happened before in the history of our civilization**. Humans dominated Earth due to reasons, including our biological sense of survival combined with our collective wandering and inventiveness.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/doomsday-ai", "canonical_source": "http://blog.gjmveloso.dev/posts/2026/07/22/doomsday-ai/", "published_at": "2026-07-23 02:13:39+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-23 02:54:05.780492+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "ai-ethics", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Fireworks AI"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/doomsday-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/doomsday-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/doomsday-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/doomsday-ai.jsonld"}}