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There is a weird paradox in terms of AI prognostication: on one hand, you don’t want to be the one to completely dismiss the most terrifying doomsday scenarios; who wants to be found out to be foolishly optimistic? At the same time, there is also pressure to give credence to the possibility that we are in a bubble, and all of this hype and spending is going to go belly up.
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The article presents a compelling argument that the emerging trend of “agentic” AI isn’t a bubble, but a fundamental shift in how these technologies are being developed and deployed – a shift that’s being *manufactured* through a carefully orchestrated sequence of narratives. The core pattern here is a classic “motte-and-bailey” tactic: the initial, widely-held concern about an AI “bubble” is deliberately misconstrued by proponents of agentic AI to justify massive investment. The framing of AI ...