Yum Brands ($YUM) podcast mentions
It's a bunch of people trying to get attention and power and money without any kind of plan. If there was a plan, they would actually have something they're suggesting. If we had smarter fascists, we'd be in real trouble. Instead, we have very, serious grades of dillweed who are saying, well, okay, I love AI, but when I say AI, I mean LLMs, which are so powerful but also not as scary as you say. You've got the EA people who say this is just one step towards Skynet. And then you've got the ultra-capitalists who are like, it's nothing, please stop talking about this. It's AGI, but not that. And the thing is, this is all a result of how the AI industry has marketed itself for the last 3 years. It's all about distancing what the product can do from reality. And modern journalism has failed. You yourself have made the point that we have this cult-like worship of the wealthy and especially of credentialism. So the media has just yum, yum, yum, eat this up. AI scary. Oh, it's going to kill us. Even though the evidence for that is that a guy told them.
Ed Zitron · Prof G Markets · AI Insiders Keep Saying We’re In Danger — Where’s The Evidence? · 2026-09-16