AI will change the world, but not in the apocalyptic way doomsayers predict
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-07-27
A quote-tweet arguing that AI will change the world, but that doomsday narratives are usually wrong about both the scale of the harm and the second-order effects.
It cites the Hugging Face hacking incident as an example of AI risk, then argues that AI will also reduce buggy and hack-prone code over time, pushing the ecosystem toward a safer new equilibrium. The author compares it to Uber: transformative, but not in the simplistic way early critics or boosters predicted.
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