The "AI existential risk is a corporate plot" narrative is one I would never, ever have seen coming.

If someone had predicted "companies will warn that their product might murder everyone if they keep improving it, and people will claim that the companies saying that are lying for marketing purposes"... I would have thought they were thinking life was a cautionary tale, like they were trying to come up with a stupider version of Idiocracy and predicting the future that way.

But no, this is really the take I keep seeing. AI companies are saying the stuff we despise the fossil fuels companies for hiding: "Our product is dangerous, we need to slow down growth, we need to be regulated or this doesn't end well" and everyvody here keeps insisting that it's fine.