We're offering a 2-week trial of WrapPRO for $1. If you’ve been wanting to check out our full coverage, now’s the time. Greetings!If you pay any attention to artificial intelligence, your feed was likely clogged up with more doomsday talk than usual. That's because an X post published earlier this week by a New York entrepreneur titled "Something Big Is Happening" went viral, racking up 80 million views. The post, written by AI entrepreneur Matt Shumer, paints a grim picture of AI decimating jobs — a scenario he believes will happen quicker than most people believe. He compared our situation now to the quiet times before the pandemic disrupted everything, and offered a stark warning: “I think we’re in the ‘this seems overblown’ phase of something much, much bigger than COVID.” Within days, critics poked holes in the post. Scientists and entrepreneur Gary Marcus criticized it for lacking any hard data to back up the assertions. Mashable argued the AI industry has a “Chicken Little” problem, with dire warnings becoming a regular occurrence. In May, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicted AI would decimate half of all entry-level white collar jobs as soon as this year. A month later, Geoffrey Hinton, the “godfather of AI,” warned there’s a 10-20% chance that AI displaces humanity completely. A day before Shumer’s post, Anthropic’s safety lead, Mrinank Sharma, suddenly quit his job to write poetry. So are we doomed? It's not an easy question to answer, but it's clear that Shumer hit a nerve and a real fear many of us have been living with ever since ChatGPT exploded in late 2022. The prospect of generative AI smart enough to wipe out “knowledge workers” has been a persistent theme, a digital Sword of Damocles hanging over all of our heads. What's worse is the feeling of powerlessness in this situation. It feels like we're on a runaway train, helpless to stop the progression of AI and whatever disaster it’s racing toward. Tech companies are compelled to keep pouring billions of dollars into infrastructure and investment into smarter and more powerful models, with countries depending on them to ensure global seniority in the mother of too-big-to-fail scenarios. A way of taking back a modicum of control is to educate yourself about AI and its tools. Even if you're morally opposed to the technology, it's worth using to at least understand the breadth of its capabilities — as well as its limits — as it inevitably begins to disrupt our lives. With that bit of advice, I wish you a happy weekend! Roger Cheng 
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