AI is a transformative technology that is evolving rapidly and reshaping our culture and society. This has lead to an AI Backlash. Concerns range from real to spurious, from monumental to pedestrian.
Trust issue with believing AI companies are not training their models on your data People are increasingly skeptical that any integration with AI companies and tools will result in their data being used to train their models and therefore might re-emerge in the next version1.
ChatGPT Concerns Employees are using large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT to input sensitive business data and private information, raising fears that Artificial Intelligence services could incorporate such data into their models and later retrieve the information if there is no proper data security in place . A report by Cyberhaven detected and blocked requests to input data into ChatGPT from 4.2% of workers at its client companies due to the risk of leaking confidential, client, regulated, or source code data to the LLM2.
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Technical and Coding
In the realm of Software Development with AI the explosion of agentic coding has lead to worries of:
- atrophying skills
- A decimation of the junior engineer population leading to an eventual drought in senior engineers
- Alternatively, juniors who lack skills outside of ai coding and debugging
- Vendor lock in. Claude code goes down and suddenly the team is not functional
- Variable token costs
- Cognitive Debt
- āIncrease in the complexity of surrounding systems to mitigate the increased ambiguity of AIās non determinismā[@fayeAgenticCodingTrap2026]