{"id":765545,"date":"2026-06-28T10:47:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T10:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/765545\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T10:47:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T10:47:50","slug":"ai-doomsayers-are-seriously-overreaching-and-we-should-all-calm-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/765545\/","title":{"rendered":"AI doomsayers are seriously overreaching and we should all calm down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Narratives about artificial intelligence are swirling \u2013 fanning hope and horror alike. Take your pick. Fearful fixation upon massive, electricity-bingeing data centres spreading fast in Melbourne, Sydney and beyond. Talk of tech titans slashing jobs, citing AI efficiencies. Forecasts of supercharged productivity and profits \u2013 alongside mass unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>These tales and more vie for your attention. But slow down. Parsing fact from science fiction requires a clear-eyed view.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Narratives about artificial intelligence are swirling \u2013 fanning hope and horror alike. Take your pick. Fearful fixation upon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-765545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}