Narrative‑driven investment risk

Public narratives about a technology (especially when amplified by respected figures) can materially change private capital flows and therefore the pace and nature of development. If doomer narratives reduce funding for safety‑improving engineering, they can paradoxically lower the system’s overall safety and delay deployable mitigations. — This highlights that discourse itself is a lever of technological risk: who frames the story affects investment, regulation, and public adoption in measurable ways.