The AI Panic Needs Some Nuclear Metaphors

Published on September 18, 2026

Much about the global AI panic — could it really “kill us all by the end of the decade”? — is genuinely new, and thus extra-scary. Then again, the specter of human-engineered extinction is hardly novel; we have about eight decades of experience in thinking about it.

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