#AIdoomerism relies on the left's obsession with using academia as a way to distinguish themselves from the lower classes.
AI Doomerists are exploiting the academia aesthetic through scholarly sounding blogs and corporate-funded studies disguised as academic journals.
California liberals never got over their obsession with eugenics, and it's being exploited to achieve regulatory capture— placing AI technology in the hands of a few billionaires.
https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/download/13636/11599?inline=1#p3
![It is noteworthy that negative eugenics was embraced by not just German fascists but progressives and liberals elsewhere in Europe and North America
[16]. As Bashford and Levine (2010) observe, "the optimism of eugenics, and its aspiration to apply scientific ideas actively, was among the reasons it so frequently attracted progressives and liberals"](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/650/159/440/697/175/original/3dfe9c02db706155.jpeg)