Artificial intelligence may be the most widely adopted technology in modern history, but it’s also one of the least trusted .

That disconnect, David Sacks insists , isn’t because AI threatens your job , privacy and the future of the economy itself. No – according to the venture-capitalist-turned-Trump-advisor, it’s all part of a $1 billion plot by what he calls the “Doomer Industrial Complex,” a shadow network of Effective Altruist billionaires bankrolled by the likes of convicted FTX founder Sam Bankman Fried and Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz.

In an X post this week, Sacks argued that public distrust of AI isn’t organic at all — it’s manufactured. He pointed to research by tech-culture scholar Nirit Weiss-Blatt, who has spent years mapping the “AI doom” ecosystem

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