{"id":20056,"date":"2026-03-25T09:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T09:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/the-ai-hype-index-ai-goes-to-war\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T09:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T09:01:11","slug":"the-ai-hype-index-ai-goes-to-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/the-ai-hype-index-ai-goes-to-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The AI Hype Index: AI goes to war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>AI is at war. Anthropic and the Pentagon feuded over how to weaponize Anthropic\u2019s AI model Claude; then OpenAI swept the Pentagon off its feet with an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sama\/status\/2028640354912923739\">opportunistic and sloppy<\/a>\u201d deal. Users quit ChatGPT in droves. People marched through London in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2026\/03\/02\/1133814\/i-checked-out-londons-biggest-ever-anti-ai-protest\/\">biggest protest against AI<\/a> to date. If you\u2019re keeping score, Anthropic\u2014the company founded to be ethical\u2014is now turbocharging US strikes on Iran.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart\" data-src=\"visualisation\/28213543?1184216\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div style=\"height:2em\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<p>On the lighter side, AI agents are now going viral online. OpenAI hired the creator of OpenClaw, a popular AI agent. Meta snapped up Moltbook, where AI agents seem to ponder their own existence and invent new religions like Crustafarianism. And on RentAHuman, bots are hiring people to deliver CBD gummies. The future isn\u2019t AI taking your job. It\u2019s AI becoming your boss and finding God.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI is at war. Anthropic and the Pentagon feuded over  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}