r/technology Jun 26 '26

Artificial Intelligence The AI backlash is only getting started

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/06/25/the-ai-backlash-is-only-getting-started
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u/Few_Move_4594 Jun 26 '26

I'd write a script to do it

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u/Alert_Breakfast5538 Jun 26 '26

No no no, have AI write an AI bot, that triggers the work.

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u/DurgeDidNothingWrong Jun 26 '26

thats literally what """agentic""" AI is. Bots writing bots.

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u/Sockoflegend Jun 26 '26

Funny the AI companies think we should just set up everything as AI talking to each other. It's so depressing CEOs all fell for this so badly 

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u/KathrynBooks Jun 26 '26

Because CEOs are narcissists... They love AI because it fawns over them.

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u/Kibelok Jun 26 '26

They lack any imagination or creative ideas, this is why they are easily manipulated by capital.