Did you see the news? Everybody is freaking out about artificial intelligence, which poses a significant likelihood of killing everyone on the planet once it achieves superintelligence…at least according to a bunch of tech folks who might have their own reasons for stoking mass panic.
This media frenzy has led to blowback from a bunch of people, including Elon Musk, who say AI doomers are engaged in a "psyop"—in other words, they are using inauthentic means to manufacture a nonexistent controversy over AI. Proponents of the psyop theory point to a high degree of coordination among the doomers, though they are glossing over some less conspiratorial explanations for why politicians and reporters are boosting their claims.
