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AI apocalypse
The shape of the AI apocalypse isn't a robot uprising. Nondeterministic autocompletes don't think, so they can't rise up; they only pretend to think, thanks to the ELIZA Effect, and so can only pretend to rise up, if the RNG seed is just right.
No, the shape of the AI apocalypse is the shape of infrastructure collapse in the wake of a natural disaster, minus the damage to infrastructure hardware.
AI apocalypse, FAA
Today, it's "what if the human stupidity that made the CrowdStrike outage did it in the FAA's core ATC network?" shaped.
Ars Technica, 2026-11-13 (Friday the Thirteenth), "FAA orders third nationwide ground stop in its history": https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/11/faa-orders-third-nationwide-ground-stop-in-its-history/