I want to be clear that this is pretty divorced from my own views of likely scenarios, even likely nightmare scenarios, so they're not getting this from me.
If you're reading this and you're involved in LLM hype, I'd really like you to take a moment to pause and examine the fact that this is the commonly accepted peer wisdom in a 2nd-grade classroom right now. That their parents' generation is actively involved in betraying them to a distant and inscrutable machine-god of pure greed.