Ethan Mollick: recent big outages were not caused by AI, despite viral blame
emollick · x · 2026-11-14
Ethan Mollick pushes back on the reflexive assumption that the recent major outages were caused by AI—either used offensively or due to AI errors. He states they were not AI-related, while noting that doesn't mean the next outage won't be.
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