The midterm elections are right around the corner, and both parties are about as popular as a Monday-morning visit to the DMV. 

The time-tested solution? Find a scapegoat, go negative, and blame the other side. 

This year the weaponized bogeyman is artificial intelligence. 

Many Americans are falling for the anti-AI information operation. They shouldn't. 

A new poll from Politico has the grisly details: 63 percent of Americans think AI has the potential to "destroy humanity." A majority of both Democrats and Republicans now think AI could herald the apocalypse. 

That's quite a sea change in less than a year. In December 2025, a poll from Navigator Research found Americans split roughly equally among those favoring data centers, opposing data centers, or ambivalent. 

It's not hard to figure out what happened. 

Days before the new Politico poll, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stressed the same existential stakes, arguing AI industry titans "owe it to humanity to try" to slow down the Frankenstein monster they've unleashed on the masses.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has a "sociopathic lack of concern" for humanity, according to a loose-lipped company board member.

The Trumpy Elon Musk is calling for an industry........

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