AI Panic Traced to Someone With Six Weeks of Work Experience, Critics Quip
kevinnbass · x · 2026-09-21
A quoted post likens the current AI panic to the plastic-straw panic that started with a middle school science fair project, saying this round was sparked by someone with just six weeks of work experience.
The retweeter piles on: lockdowns came from a science fair project done by a 14-year-old. It reads as AI-industry cultural commentary rather than a technical claim.
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