I'm not a doomer. Never have been.
I rolled my eyes at every "AI will kill us all" headline. Called it fear-mongering. Told my friends to relax.
Then I saw the Mythos news.
And something shifted in my chest that I can't really explain.
Here's what gets me, it's not that the technology is powerful. We knew it was going to get powerful. That was always the deal.
It's that nobody actually asked us if we wanted this.
No vote. No debate. No "hey, before we cross this line, should we maybe talk about it?" Just a press release, a demo, some VCs losing their minds in the comments, and suddenly the world is just... different now.
That's the part that broke something in me.
I keep thinking about how we handle other things that can change civilization, nuclear power, gene editing, even social media. There are committees. Regulations. International agreements. Years of ethical debate before anything goes live.
With AI? We basically said "ship it and figure it out later."
Mythos isn't even the scariest part. The scariest part is that Mythos was announced casually. Like it was a product update. Like the bar for what counts as an alarm bell has moved so far that we don't even flinch anymore.
We've been desensitized to our own extinction-level headlines.
I don't know what the answer is. I'm not smart enough to solve this.
But I do know that when something this big happens and the loudest voices in the room are the ones who financially benefit from it, that's usually when things go very wrong for everyone else.
Just feel like more people should be talking about this instead of arguing about which AI makes better images.
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