AI Inside It's Hard Out There For a Lobster
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Feb 25, 2026 They unpack a viral “2028 Global Intelligence Crisis” memo and the Wall Street panic it sparked. They debate Anthropic’s claims about API distillation and the risks of agentic tools like OpenClaw. They cover Meta’s huge AMD chip purchase, Samsung adding Perplexity to Galaxy AI, Google’s Pomelli marketing tool, and Claude’s push into finance and HR.
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How A Fictional AI Scenario Shook Wall Street
- Viral speculative reports can move markets despite being fictional scenarios.
- Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss the Citrini 2028 scenario prompting an 800‑point Dow drop and Wall Street panic over AI risks.
Why The Doomsday Narrative Overlooks Historical Pushback
- The Citrini report stacks worst‑case outcomes while ignoring historical patterns of job creation and policy responses.
- Jarvis and Howell point out lump‑of‑labor fallacy, Jevons paradox, and likely policy/implementation lags undermining the scenario.
Anthropic's Distillation Attack Claim And The Scale Allegation
- Anthropic accused Chinese labs of 'distillation attacks' that scrape Claude via millions of API exchanges to clone capabilities.
- They claim ~16 million exchanges across 24,000 fraudulent accounts routed through proxies to evade detection.