My take on the "AI Doomer" movement and especially the "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" school of thought.

Sources:
AI 2027: ai-2027.com/

Examples of dangerous things AIs are already doing that we need to worry about instead of Doomerism:
arstechnica.com/health/2025/08/after-using-chatgpt…
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/self-driving-uber-c…
gmauthority.com/blog/2024/01/gms-cruise-av-inciden…
sfstandard.com/2025/05/11/ai-chatbots-fake-therapi…
abc7ny.com/post/man-falsely-jailed-nypds-facial-re…

Asteroid Safety vs Airline Safety:
www.lpi.usra.edu/science/kring/Chicxulub/
undark.org/2025/01/24/asteroid-defense-spending/
www.cirium.com/thoughtcloud/flying-safer-than-ever…

Volkswagon Scandal, and accountability:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/business/internat…
fortune.com/europe/2025/05/26/former-volkswagen-ma…

Power grids and data centers:
www.eesi.org/articles/view/data-center-energy-need…
paylesspower.com/blog/blackout-tracker/

00:00 About AI Doomerism
01:10 Intro
02:11 "Death from AI" is like "Death From Above"
04:23 Why the AI Industry keeps pushing this
05:35 AI Fraud vs Volkswagen Emissions Fraud
07:10 Point of Personal Reflection
09:29 Why the AIs can't kill us all
09:48 The Last-Ditch Off-Button
12:13 Stupidity of Scenarios you're supposed to believe
16:12 AI is Dangerous NOW