The Yuddites are going for purposeful exaggeration because discussing things in a nuanced manner won't get support quickly enough from people in power. Fear is

The Yuddites are going for purposeful exaggeration because discussing things in a nuanced manner won't get support quickly enough from people in power. Fear is a stronger immediate motivator than curiosity or distrust. The reality is that multiple AI systems will likely contradict eachother leading to systems collapse, killing thousands of people as power, transit, or trade systems shut down. It is of course a massive concern, but it isn't as scary as total extinction, and the fear is destruction on that scale will be ignored as an anomaly or simply an operation risk. You have an extremely high risk dying in a vehicle collision but people dismiss the risk because it isn't immediately apparent that 40,000 people die every year in the U.S. from that very cause. Certain deadly events become common enough that they get ignored due to desensitization, or become categorized as individual and anecdotal tragedies because they aren't mass casualty events like a plane crash or a hotel collapsing. If a few thousand people die every quarter from AI lockups or failures that nobody could've predicted or prevented because the AI is fully operationally autonomous, it will be treated the same as vehicle deaths. And that is the true fear.