Why Is Everyone Supposed to Die If Machines Can Think?

A critical take on the AI industry's narrative tactics: how companies manufacture existential dread to suppress practical skepticism, police language to silence critics (e.g., Microsoft banning 'Microslop' in Copilot Discord), and pursue defense contracts while performing ethical restraint. The author argues that AI is genuinely useful as a tool within realistic limits, but that gap between the actual tool and the promised revolution is exactly what the industry's bullying tactics are designed to obscure. Covers OpenAI's financial struggles, Anthropic's contradictory stance on surveillance, and the cognitive trap of framing AI as simultaneously savior and apocalypse.