Maybe numb empathy has become their default so they use MDMA to feel normal when they’re off duty?

Most massacres and genocides in human history were done sober by a large fraction of the population. It seems like people are simply inherently capable of murdering children and being numb to the experience. I don’t know how easy it is to switch that on or off.

On the plus side, this isn’t a problem with AI, this is a problem with AI companies having more investment money than they know what to do with. The moment the hype fades and they don’t want to hemmorage money scraping every wiki on the internet thousands of times per day, this traffic will go back to a far more sane amount.