The most interesting book in Cory Doctorow's New Yorker triple review isn't about Facebook or pyramid schemes. It's the one explaining why tech billionaires can't stop talking about AI doomsday scenarios. Adam Becker's "More Everything Forever" takes aim at billionaire futurist fantasies. The AI existential risk crowd gets special scrutiny. That paperclip maximizer (the thought experiment where an AI optimizes for paperclips and accidentally wipes us out) came from philosopher Nick Bostrom at Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute. Tech billionaires fund that institute. Heavily. Dustin Moskovitz, Facebook co-founder, pumps billions through Open Philanthropy into AI safety research. Jaan Tallinn, Skype co-founder, bankrolls the Future of Life Institute. Sam Bankman-Fried was a major EA donor. Then he got convicted of fraud. That's not a coincidence. As Doctorow argues through Becker's work, billionaire-backed futurist ideas like unfettered AI development and carbon sequestration are ways to dodge actual climate policy. They redirect attention to far-future hypotheticals. Not present-day harms. And the AI safety discourse gets shaped by people whose wealth depends on the technologies they don't want regulated. Doctorow sees a pattern. The same billionaire class funding AI risk think tanks also financed the political infrastructure that enables oligarchy. Bridget Read's "Little Bosses Everywhere" shows how Amway founders bankrolled The Heritage Foundation. Sarah Wynn-Williams' "Careless People" documents Facebook's culture sliding from recklessness to outright disregard. The through-line is simple. Power without accountability.