Doomsday AI Narratives Miss the Harms Already Here

The Intercept argues that Silicon Valley’s alarmist AI-doomsaying by leaders like Altman and Musk is a distraction from concrete, current harms of AI—such as massive energy use from data centers, impact on workers and artists, bias and discrimination, deepfakes and misinformation, and pervasive surveillance—and calls for a sober, critical reckoning with these realities alongside any talk of existential AI risks.