Does AI Mean the End of the World?

Have you given any thought to the wailing and the gnashing of teeth that will daily fill the regime media on the day that our beloved government employees collide with the AI revolution? 

Christopher Chantrill | May 18, 2026

Everyone was writing about AI last week.

Maya Sulkin wrote about Alpha Schools, where kids learn with AI-based apps in the morning and plan business startups in the afternoon. No doubt they also “rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner,” as Marx prophesied.

Jeffrey A. Tucker worried about the impact of AI on “the college experience.”

It’s worth asking because we now have myriad tools available that can generate college papers in seconds. A dissertation is a click away. Even whole books with deep citations can be constructed in an hour.

It’s worth asking because we now have myriad tools available that can generate college papers in seconds. A dissertation is a click away. Even whole books with deep citations can be constructed in an hour.

So maybe colleges have reached their sell-by date. Who needs to idle away a morning listening to a second-rate teacher when AI can replicate his lecture in ten seconds?

Tucker’s solution to AI cheating is credential exams from the various professional organizations. Really? Why not have AI interrogate new lawyers and dentists to determine their competence?

And Walter Dunway worried about editors:

According to a recent Wall Street Journal report, students, freelancers, and professionals increasingly fear that prose that appears too polished, organized, or competent may trigger........

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