AI doomsday predictions haven’t evolved despite ChatGPT showing exactly what happens when you dump sum total of human knowledge into a system. You’re hearing warnings about superintelligence incompatible with humans, existential extinction events. Greg Fish, computer scientist who studied this math in early 2010s, reveals Yudkowsky published book last year repeating same exact things he has been saying since 2002. Meanwhile tech shares declining significantly because companies invested billions and billions of dollars into something not giving them the returns they expected. Three years of the tool to end all tools is finally here. Reality: okay it helps me with a couple things, it’s neat little tool, but it’s not the thing. Wild promises just train it enough proven untrue because math is still a thing, math was a thing, math still is a thing.
The elaborate papers assumed AI would be black box, too mysterious for us to study, too sophisticated, too advanced, no weaknesses, able to do anything and everything. Now we have ChatGPT, now we have Claude showing exactly what happens. You get Wikipedia you can talk to basically. Greg wrote in 2009 this is what’s going to happen because he was literally studying the math behind it, the math says this is what happens when you do that. Not seeing the future, just what math says. Gemini lied four times about transcribing audio file, claimed it could then didn’t, wrote summaries, made things up. You can’t tell me this technology ending world when it’s just disobedient brat liar. Greg’s observation after studying the rhetoric: sounds to me less like tech and more like religion. People who desperately want to believe in something higher than themselves, can’t believe in supernatural God so they want to build one.
The next time you read AI extinction warning, ask whether the prediction changed at all since ChatGPT launched. If rhetoric stayed identical while reality proved opposite, you’re reading belief system, not technical analysis.
Topics: AI doomsday scenarios, ChatGPT limitations, tech investment losses, superintelligence fears, AI as religion, existential risk rhetoric
GUEST:Greg Fish | cyberpunksurvivalguide.com, computer scientist
Originally aired on2026-02-04
