whurley: AI Doom Rhetoric Is Really About Control Over the Technology
whurley · x · 2026-09-15
whurley argues all AI doom rhetoric boils down to control: catastrophe predictions presented as certainty without matching evidence are used to convince people the future will destroy them — so that others get to decide who gets to build a technology that would dramatically improve lives.
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