Is the AI Doom Fever Breaking? | AI Reality Check
May 7, 2026 · 27 min · YouTube
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0:00The way that CEOs of major AI companies have been talking about their products in recent years really has been bonkers.
0:09They seem to be going out of their way to terrify their potential customers.
0:14I mean, last week, I played a clip of Microsoft CEO Mustafa Suleiman claiming that their AI systems would be capable of fully automating basically every knowledge work task within a year.
0:27That's not a very nice thing to tell your customers.
0:30All your jobs are going to go away, by the way.
0:32We're working on it.
0:33Hold for applause, I guess.
0:35Now, he's far from alone in making these type of disturbing claims.
0:38Here is OpenAI CEO Sam Altman talking last summer about what the world is going to be like after AI takes over everything.
0:47People really need agency.
0:49Like, they really need to feel like they have a voice in governing the future and deciding where things go.
0:55And I think if you just like say, okay, AI is going to do everything and then everybody gets like a, you know, dividend from that, it's not going to feel good.
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