From reading this, I don't get the impression that Lanier has any objective reason to believe the world won't be destroyed as the direct result of AI. If he doe

From reading this, I don't get the impression that Lanier has any objective reason to believe the world won't be destroyed as the direct result of AI. If he does have a reason, the reporter certainly doesn't devote any space to analysing it, or to explain why dying from AI-induced insanity is different from being destroyed.