
Beating the AI Doom Cycle
From The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Published 5/18/2026

From The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Published 5/18/2026
NLW introduces the AI Doom Cycle: the emotional arc from skepticism, to AI mania, to job-loss panic, to a more grounded view of how AI is actually spreading through society. From Ken Griffin’s AI reversal and Silicon Valley’s doom psychology to commencement backlash, Meta layoffs, token pricing,…