Critics ask: are AI doom narratives just insulated lab elites projecting their fears?
TinfoilTricorn · x · 2026-09-22
A commentary argues that lab experts and engineers earning around $200k a year are insulated from the economic and everyday struggles most people face, which leads them to manufacture artificial dread and project it onto AI technology. Citing the 1956 film Forbidden Planet, the author suggests the issue isn't that AI can't be good, but that a lack of self-understanding lets inner fears consume reality rather than build it.
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