269: The AI Anxiety Draft

Worrying about AI is the easy part. Everyone already has a list. The interesting part is what lands on it, what doesn't, and why. From military use, to an AI slop takeover, to the possibility that the tools are making us stupider.This week, the hosts respond to a question from the State of Devs survey: “Which of these general AI risks and issues are you most concerned about?”Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky. New episodes drop weekly on Thursday.And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon.Mentioned in this episode:State of Devs 2025 survey — the questions that set off the discussion; the survey itself is now closedOpenAI's Hugging Face security incident — what happened when agents escaped a constrained cyber evaluationLinkedIn's campaign against AI slop — the official explanation of its new reporting controlCloudflare Pay Per Crawl — tools for publishers to allow, block, or charge AI crawlersWith audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media.Full show notes and transcript here.