# AI Doomerism Is Getting Out of Control — Let’s Break the Myths Apart One by One

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Podcast: [AsianDadEnergy's Substack Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/asiandadenergy-s-substack-podcast-7711112)
Published: 2026-04-14T23:24:05+00:00
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Hello world, I’m an unemployed ex–big tech software engineer with 25 years in the industry. That sentence tends to land somewhere between confession and credibility, depending on how charitable you’re feeling. Lately, I’ve been watching the rise of something… strange. Not AI itself, that part makes sense. What doesn’t make sense is the explosion of AI Doomerism . Everywhere you look, there are headlines warning that AI is lying, stealing, scheming, or quietly plotting humanity’s demise. And to be clear, AI does pose real challenges. Serious ones. But what concerns me more is how many people, technical and non-technical alike, are buying into narratives that simply don’t hold up under scrutiny. Let’s talk about that. Myth #1: AI Lies When people say AI “lies,” they’re projecting human intent onto something that has none. Lying requires awareness. It requires understanding the difference between truth and falsehood and then deliberately choosing deception. AI doesn’t do that. What it does is generate text probabilistically. Word by word. Based on patterns in its training data. When it doesn’t “know” something, especially in obscure or edge cases, it doesn’t refuse to answer. It guesses. Confidently. That’s what we call a hallucination. Not deception. Not intent. Just math doing its best impression of certainty. Myth #2: AI Steals You’ve probably seen headlines claiming AI is stealing corporate secrets or personal data. Look closer, and the story usually falls apart into three very human problems: * Data leakage — People accidentally paste sensitive information into prompts * Weak security — Systems rushed into production without proper safeguards * Human exploitation — Attackers using AI tools to scale old tricks in new ways AI isn’t sneaking into databases and exfiltrat…

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