--- title: Why Is Everyone Supposed to Die If Machines Can Think? description: A critical take on the AI industry's narrative tactics: how companies manufacture existential dread to suppress practical skepticism, police language to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-is-everyone-supposed-to-die-if-machines-can-think--2efdbyegs twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why Is Everyone Supposed to Die If Machines Can Think? | daily.dev og:description: A critical take on the AI industry's narrative tactics: how companies manufacture existential dread to suppress practical skepticism, police language to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-is-everyone-supposed-to-die-if-machines-can-think--2efdbyegs og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2EFDbYegs.png og:image:alt: Why Is Everyone Supposed to Die If Machines Can Think? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why Is Everyone Supposed to Die If Machines Can Think? **[Ibrahim Diallo](https://daily.dev/sources/idiallo)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary 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. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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