Silicon Valley’s tone-deaf take on the AI backlash will m...

What’s Happening

Not gonna lie, AI’s champions keep trying to impress, but the public is still waiting for answers about jobs, costs, and who benefits.

By 2026, that tension will matter. Welcome to Eye on AI, with AI reporter Sharon Goldman. (wild, right?)

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The Details

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The complaint goes like this: People outside the industry don’t appreciate the rapid, visible—and, to insiders, near-miraculous—advances that AI systems are making. Instead, haters and everyday users believe either that AI progress has stalled, or that the technology is just a hungry, plagiarizing machine spewing useless slop.

Why This Matters

To AI optimists from San Francisco to San Jose, that skepticism is deeply misguided. AI progress is not stopping anytime soon, they argue, and the technology is already helping humanity— cutting-edge research and boosting productivity, particularly in areas like coding, math, and science. Take this excerpt from a recent post by Roon, a popular pseudonymous account on X written researcher: “Every time I use Codex to solve some issue late at night or GPT helps me figure out a difficult strategic problem, I feel: what a relief.

The business implications here could be significant in the coming months.

Key Takeaways

• Now you have potentially infinite minds to throw at infinite potential problems.
• Your computer friend that never takes the day off, never gets bored, never checks out and stops trying.
• ” I understand Roon’s excitement—and his impatience with people who seem eager to declare AI a bubble every time it hits a setback.

The Bottom Line

Who wouldn’t want, as he puts it, a “computer friend that never takes the day off, never gets bored, never checks out and stops trying”? Thrilling to one may sound threatening to another The answer, in fact, is: many.

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