As I have been writing, the current AI Doomerism hype isn't motivated primarily by real concerns about the potential dangers of rapid AI development. It's a play to create an industry cartel that controls the market and becomes "too big to fail," ensuring that the financial apocalypse the frontier AI companies face does not come to pass. It's also useful for the Democrats who have jumped onto the Doomer bandwagon, because, in exchange for the financial salvation they promise to OpenAI and Anthropic, they will get to decide what AI presents as "reality." It is the ultimate reality-control mechanism, ensuring...