{"id":242492,"date":"2026-08-10T21:06:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/the-ai-apocalypse-is-already-here"},"modified":"2026-08-10T21:06:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:06:52","slug":"the-ai-apocalypse-is-already-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/the-ai-apocalypse-is-already-here","title":{"rendered":"The AI Apocalypse Is Already Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-ai-apocalypse-is-already-here2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the article \u2014 _________________<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoing forward, we can expect politics increasingly to be divided between those to whom the moral decay brought on by generative and agentic AI is incapable of being compensated by any amount of economic growth, and those for whom all humanistic objections seem misguided and irrelevant next to the quest for machine superintelligence. Let us hope that the former prevail.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Americans do not care for artificial intelligence. Recent polling shows that their attitudes mostly range from ambivalence to horror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the article \u2014 _________________ \u201cGoing forward, we can expect politics increasingly to be divided between those to whom the moral decay brought on by generative and agentic AI is incapable of being compensated by any amount of economic growth, and those for whom all humanistic objections seem misguided and irrelevant next to the quest [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,30,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-ethics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}