"During our planet's latest and seemingly interminable revolution around the Sun, the tech industry's obsession with AI soared to ever more implausible heights. CEOs began openly gloating about replacing their underlings with AI "agents." The phenomenon of so-called AI psychosis became a national news story as more people were seemingly driven over the edge by their silver-tongued chatbot companions. "Slop" took on a new meaning."
""I think we're going to see AI get even better," Hinton said during an interview on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday. "It's already extremely good. We're going to see it having the capabilities to replace many, many jobs. It's already able to replace jobs in call centers, but it's going to be able to replace many other jobs.""
"Hinton was one of three recipients of the prestigious Turing Award in 2018 for his work on neural networks that formed the bedrock of modern AI, earning him the moniker of being a "godfather" of the field. In 2023, Hinton declared that he regretted his life's work after stepping down from his role at Google, where he had been for over a decade. Since then, he's become one of the tech's most prominent doomsayers."
2025 featured intensified AI hype, with CEOs boasting about replacing employees with AI agents, news stories about AI-driven psychological harm, and buzz tying terms like "slop" and "circular" to massive sums of money. Geoffrey Hinton, a Turing Award recipient and neural network pioneer, predicts further AI improvement in 2026 with capabilities to replace many jobs, including call centers, potentially eliminating low-paying work. Hinton expressed regret about his contributions after leaving Google in 2023 and has since become a prominent AI doomsayer who reports increasing worry as AI progresses.
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