From Curing Cancer to Killing You: How the AI Bubble Narrative Keeps Flipping
GCWebDesigner · x · 2026-09-18
A widely shared quip mocks how AI bubble rhetoric keeps flipping: the same technology is pitched as curing cancer, creating abundance, and ending work — then recast as taking jobs and even killing people. The author's point: the narrative follows the hype cycle, not the technology.
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