AI as secular tragedy

Frame AI catastrophe not as a sudden external apocalypse or a purely technical risk, but as a tragic, self‑inflicted outcome of human sovereignty — especially the separation of reason from prudence and the profit incentives of modern capitalism. This narrative treats elite moral platitudes and managerial techno‑optimism as the ironic chorus of a play whose protagonists are collectively driving the plot toward self‑undoing. — If public debate adopts a tragic frame, policy moves from technocratic fixes toward moral, institutional and incentive‑focused responses (regulatory restraints, corporate accountability, cultural humility).