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We are being told to tremble at the marvels we built, as though fear is a substitute for thinking. Leading technologists and academic elites even published a one-sentence warning that “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority,” a clear signal that the conversation has shifted from sober caution to dramatic alarm. That statement drew signatures from CEOs and top researchers and now fuels a moral panic in mainstream media that echoes every overblown crisis pitch of the last decade.
Conservatives should be clear-eyed: skepticism of catastrophism is not denial of risk, it is a defense against governance-by-hysteria. We watched climate alarmism morph into taxation, new bureaucracies, and a powerful narrative that centralized decision-making was needed to “save the planet.” The same instinct now shows up in tech—the demand for all-encompassing global rules and precautionary shutdowns that would hand control to the same technocrats who profited from the last panic.
That does not mean AI is harmless. Some of the people building these systems warn of massive disruptions to work and livelihoods, including startling predictions that tools could wipe out half of entry-level white-collar jobs and drive unemployment sharply higher. Responsible conservatives accept that serious economic dislocation is possible and insist the answer is not fearmongering but preparation: workforce retraining, wage portability, and pro-growth policies that create new ladders of opportunity.
Others—gripped by the romance of precaution—call for moratoria or “pauses” on training powerful systems until abstract alignment problems are solved. The idea of freezing innovation to avoid hypothetical future disasters sounds noble until you remember who gets to decide when freezing is over: remote bureaucracies and international bodies with agendas of their own. A pause, once normalized, becomes the lever by which elites slow American enterprise and hand advantage to rivals who won’t play by the same rules.
That global pressure is real: diplomatic theater about “AI governance” is shaping up as another venue for international rulemaking, and some nations are already pushing for global frameworks that prioritize coordination over competition. America cannot outsource its destiny or kneel to global regulatory schemes that blunt our competitive edge and ossify innovation into permission-seeking. The patriotic, pro-worker approach is to set smart, transparent guardrails at home while unleashing American entrepreneurs to harness AI’s productivity gains.
So here’s the conservative case plain and proud: reject panic as policy, demand accountability from Silicon Valley, protect workers with concrete programs, and champion innovation that expands prosperity. We can and must steward new technology without surrendering freedom to technocratic superstition; the choice is between harnessing AI for jobs, cures, and growth or letting alarmist elites use fear to centralize power. Hardworking Americans deserve better than a rerun of the last moral panic—give us liberty, not lockups, and we will turn this revolution into a brighter future.
