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Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them

AI companies strategically invoke existential dread in policy debates to shape regulation, despite evidence that AI governance is achievable—revealing fearmongering as a corporate strategy rather than technological inevitability.

Wednesday, April 29, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Hacker NewsBY sys://pipeline

BBC Future examines how AI companies strategically use fear narratives about their technology to influence policy discourse. Expert commentary argues that AI is governable—like other regulated technologies—and that framing it as uncontrollable is a strategic choice rather than technological reality.

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