The AI industry has a big Chicken Little problem

Entrepreneur Matt Shumer's essay, "Something Big Is Happening," is going mega-viral on X, where it's been viewed 42 million times and counting.

The piece warns that rapid advancements in the AI industry over the past few weeks threaten to change the world as we know it. Shumer specifically likens the present moment to the weeks and months preceding the COVID-19 pandemic, and says most people won't hear the warning "until it's too late."

We've heard warnings like this before from AI doomers...