Large tech companies often frame AI safety through the lens of "existential risk." By focusing on speculative, doomsday scenarios like rogue superintelligence, they shift the conversation away from current harms. Issues like data theft, biased algorithms, or labor exploitation get pushed to the sidelines. This focus creates a paradox. If the threat is an unstoppable machine, then only the companies with the most computing power and data can manage it.
This rhetoric creates a
