Is the AI Doom Fever Breaking? | AI Reality Check

2026-05-07 · 27 min · 13 entities

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Link in episode "Is the AI Doom Fever Breaking? | AI Reality Check": https://nytimes.com/2026/05/03/opinion/ai-jobs-unemployment-silicon-valley.html
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Link in episode "Is the AI Doom Fever Breaking? | AI Reality Check": https://nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.pdf

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Is the AI Doom Fever Breaking? | AI Reality Check
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Link in episode "Is the AI Doom Fever Breaking? | AI Reality Check": https://nytimes.com/2026/05/03/opinion/ai-jobs-unemployment-silicon-valley.html
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Link in episode "Is the AI Doom Fever Breaking? | AI Reality Check": https://nytimes.com/2026/05/03/opinion/ai-jobs-unemployment-silicon-valley.html

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Link in episode "Is the AI Doom Fever Breaking? | AI Reality Check": https://nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.pdf
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Link in episode "Is the AI Doom Fever Breaking? | AI Reality Check": https://nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.pdf

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Cal Newport takes a critical look at recent AI News. Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia (0:00) Is the AI doom fever breaking? (4:30) Have the AI CEOs changed their tuen? (7:23) Why did they change? (11:21) Why did they ever think this was a good idea? (24:26) Conclusion Links: Buy Cal’s latest book, “Slow Productivity” at www.calnewport.com/slow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFnoQkYUqgU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWxHOrn8-rs https://x.com/sama/status/2050229058425045178 https://fortune.com/2026/05/02/jensen-huang-nvdia-ceo-god-complex-ai-apocalypse-warnings-shortages-critical-jobs/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kpb8eu1pEY https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/opinion/ai-jobs-unemployment-silicon-valley.html https://nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.pdf Thanks to Jesse Miller for production and mastering and Nate Mechler for research and newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices