"Recognize doomsday framing as a power-consolidation tool Hao identified that AI leaders simultaneously invoke both catastrophic risk and utopian benefit as two sides of the same rhetorical coin: 'They have to use both of these narratives in order to continue justifying an extremely anti-democratic approach to AI development.' The structure — 'worst case lights out for everyone, best case we cure cancer' — is designed to make the public feel only insiders can steer the outcome safely. Whenever a powerful institution pairs existential threat narratives with a claim that only they can prevent disaster, recognize it as a bid for unchecked control rather than as genuine public protection. Source: Karen Hao, The Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett, Empire of AI"