Ed Zitron condemns the violent attack on Sam Altman but argues it is a direct consequence of years of fear-mongering, manipulative rhetoric, and disingenuous claims by AI executives like Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, who exaggerate AI capabilities and job displacement risks to inflate valu
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