What's Behind the AI Panic
The “Effective Altruists” want you scared, stupid and subservient. Today’s post is a sneak preview of the “Future Shock” section of the forthcoming Sovereign Capitalist Letter (get our latest report and a sample issue here). Just heading into mid-September, a purported moral panic broke out amongst the frontier AI leaders that their own products were “too dangerous” and so the only remedy would be for the government to regulate all AI models.
- ▪The “Effective Altruists” want you scared, stupid and subservient.
- ▪Today’s post is a sneak preview of the “Future Shock” section of the forthcoming Sovereign Capitalist Letter (get our latest report and a sample issue here).
- ▪Just heading into mid-September, a purported moral panic broke out amongst the frontier AI leaders that their own products were “too dangerous” and so the only remedy would be for the government to regulate all AI models.
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| Original publisher | Mark E. Jeftovic is The Bombthrower |
| Canonical URL | https://bombthrower.com/whats-really-behind-the-ai-panic/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:28:30 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-29T06:29:55.043Z |
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The “Effective Altruists” want you scared, stupid and subservient. Today’s post is a sneak preview of the “Future Shock” section of the forthcoming Sovereign Capitalist Letter (get our latest report and a sample issue here). Just heading into mid-September, a purported moral panic broke out amongst the frontier AI leaders that their own products were “too dangerous” and so the only remedy would be for the government to regulate all AI models. Weeks earlier, Bernie Sanders had introduced The Ban AI-Superintelligence Act, that would make it illegal to create an AI model that was more intelligent than humans, going so far as to prescribe a 20-year prison term for any person who did and the “corporate death penalty” for companies.
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