- Participants debated whether AI itself is the threat or whether the real danger lies in how capitalist systems will weaponize AI, with one contributor arguing that humans are simply “a special case of AI” and that the systemic problem is capitalism, not the technology.

- A counter-point emphasized that AI lowers the barrier to large-scale harm by removing the historical need to recruit and coordinate large numbers of human collaborators, making atrocities easier for a single actor to execute.

- The discussion framed AI as a force multiplier for both productivity and malice, highlighting the asymmetry between the effort required for beneficial versus harmful applications.

- No specific tools, papers, or projects were linked, but the exchange distilled a core tension in transhumanist discourse: the alignment problem is inseparable from the socioeconomic context in which AI is deployed.