What Tech Insiders Actually Think of AI Is Extremely Revealing

As ChatGPT’s third anniversary approaches, AI hype is hard to escape.

Tech companies are committing hundreds of billions of dollars to enormous data center buildouts, while industry leaders are promising an inevitable future in which superintelligent machines will usher in an era of unprecedented prosperity.

But many tech insiders are quietly singing a very different tune, expressing a growing conviction that’s been circulating for a while now: that AI is immensely overhyped.

In an illuminating blog post, tech entrepreneur and writer Anil Dash reports that “most people who actually have technical roles within the tech industry” share an “extraordinary degree of consistency in their feelings about AI.”

Unlike their CEOS, Dash reports, these workers believe that “technologies like [large