Artificial Intelligence: The Hype, the Dangers, and the ResistanceTechnology • August 4, 2026 • Martin Hart-LandsbergArtificial intelligence (AI) covers a broad range of technologies. Tech leaders want us to believe that their multimodal generative AI technology will, in the very near future, dramatically transform our lives. And we must trust our tech leaders to establish the necessary guardrails to ensure a helpful rather than destructive AI. Since AI agents depend upon multimodal generative AI systems to operate, they are infected with their same shortcomings. Small scale specialized generative AI systems have also proven helpful in scientific research and there are examples of marginalized communities using such systems to revive their threatened languages.