I wish it was more convincing. As it stands, it says more about the author's egoistic view of humanity than of AI. Imagine for a second taking Feuerbach's The

I wish it was more convincing. As it stands, it says more about the author's egoistic view of humanity than of AI. Imagine for a second taking Feuerbach's The Essence of Religion and applying it to Descartes' rationality and Plato's nous. We'd get a critique of the rational human's construction of his own ideal - the essence of intellect. AI threatens this ideal and ego-threats get sublimated into existential threats by those unable to understand themselves well enough to express themselves directly.