by Mike Adams, Natural News:
Introduction: A Crisis of Thought
When it comes to how AI is being deployed today, we are witnessing something far more dangerous than a market correction or a tech bubble. We are living through an unprecedented crash in human cognition.
I believe the relentless hype around artificial intelligence is blinding us to the real catastrophe: the masses are eagerly outsourcing their minds to machines, trading their ability to think for the convenience of having a digital oracle answer every question. Meanwhile, the globalist elite are busy building their silicon gods, constructing a surveillance infrastructure that will one day render human decision-making obsolete — or worse, punish it.
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This is not hyperbole. As I warned in my earlier article on AI advancements, the assumption that human cognitive superiority is unassailable has been shattered. [1] The same technology that can write an essay or diagnose a disease is also being used to create AI-generated female influencers that deceive lonely men into falling in love with pixels, as reported by Zero Hedge. [2] This is what I call the Great Stupening: a slow, voluntary lobotomy performed by the very tools that were supposed to amplify our brain power. Instead, they are compromising it.
The AI Bubble: Echoes of 1999
Today’s AI investment mania looks hauntingly like the dot-com bubble, except the stakes are higher and the collateral damage will be measured in human potential, not just dollars. We saw Oracle and OpenAI abruptly scrap their Texas data center expansion plans in March 2026, a clear sign that the promised returns on AI infrastructure are not materializing as projected. [3] Yet the government, under the Trump administration, continues to pour billions into projects like Stargate, fueled by leveraged debt from SoftBank and other speculators. While AI technology itself is highly capable and truly revolutionary, the mindless over-investment in AI infrastructure is a fragile house of cards.
Michael Burry, the investor who famously predicted the 2008 crash, is now shorting Nvidia and Palantir — companies whose valuations depend largely on AI hype. Data center power demands are insatiable, and as I noted in my analysis of the compute crunch, the global economy is seizing up from a catastrophic
