What Brian Merchant thinks about AI alignment

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Journalist and author; writes Blood in the Machine, a newsletter on AI, tech, labor and power, and wrote the book of the same name on the Luddites.

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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Brian Merchant has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 24 Sept 2026

   Our readingThe most compelling reason the AI extinction narrative serves AI companies is that it lets an expensive industry coordinate a slowdown without breaking antitrust law.

   Their wordsperhaps the most compelling reason that this new AI extinction narrative ultimately serves the AI companies above all is that it gives this very expensive, money-hemorrhaging industry a means of coordinating a "slowdown" without running afoul of antitrust laws.

   ↗The AI extinction narrative is winning outbloodinthemachine.com 3rd of 3 in this piece