I was expecting an emperically backed thesis on the risks associated with AI development and adoption. What I read was instead a series of strung together and overwrought allegories and attempts to join past episodes of technological progress where risks were also high into a ‘fevered dream of AI driven extinction. These ‘historical’ examples are in turn incorporated with a significant amount of fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) phrasing to scare the reader into marching with pitchforks on their local data centers. The misalignment of the risk levels of historic tech driven transitions of the past with the ‘existential’ risk that AI is suppose to currently present is staggering; especially for two individuals who’s backgrounds would appear to indicate some knowledge of the field. Their solutions are a mix of incongruent Calvin and Hobbs (the philosophers not the strip cartoon) based, and downright overwrought, actions. Including demanding nation-state threats to conduct conventional military strikes on AI datacenters deemed to ‘large’; a metric they themselves admit haveing no solid empirical limit to establish.