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The last time Netflix delivered a doomer documentary to the global mass audience on the eve of an unprecedented policy expansion?
January 22, 2020: “Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak.”
One day before Wuhan’s lockdown.
Seven weeks before WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic.
Production timeline: 2+ years.
Yesterday: “The AI Doc” drops to 260M subscribers.
Two days later: King Charles convenes Anthropic, Nvidia, DeepMind, OpenAI at Dumfries House to draft a “shared principles” AI charter.
Production timeline: 3+ years.
Same platform. Same architecture. Six years apart.

This is probably a take on the AI-will-kill-us-all debate that you haven’t seen. If it isn’t, let me commend you for the quality of your social media feed and/or your internet-surfing habits.
But if you’re a regular reader of The American Spectator, you’ve hopefully picked up enough knowledge to be very skeptical of a classic information operation, and you recognized something fishy in the spectacle put on by the AI companies last week and over the weekend.
Specifically, that an employee who’d worked at both OpenAI and then at Anthropic resigned from the latter and released a missive complaining that nothing was being done to rein in the technology before it turns on the public and murders us all.
No sooner did that little spectacle make the rounds online than both companies gave the “Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full” treatment to the ex-employee’s concerns, in ways which looked on first glance like typical crisis PR communications but then immediately pivoted to something else.
Namely, a demand for Congress to slam on the brakes and regulate the AI industry.
No sooner did that happen than the word leaked out that Barack Obama, whose presidential record consistently showed him to be an aficionado of turning every industry he could into a corporate oligopoly beholden to and embedded with an overweening regulatory state, had advised Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to prioritize AI governance as the dominant agenda of his potential speakership should the Democrats carry the House majority in the midterms.