Standard-issue doom scenarios were invented before LLMs and are made obsolete by them.

I’m going to take a crack at explaining this just a little, because it’s worth putting out there.

The paperclip maximizer + related AI doom scenarios were mainly developed in a time when “AI” did not reduce to Large Language Models. The term was a lot wider and inherited a lot… https://t.co/c11tJibynH

— Jon Stokes (@jon_stokes) July 24, 2026