The scariest thing about AI isn’t that it might become a monster. It’s that it’s becoming an alibi.

Jeff Bezos has been making the rounds with a posture I understand—and still think is dangerously incomplete. He’s argued that people should be more excited than discouraged about AI, that the benefits will be “gigantic,” and that AI will raise quality and productivity across virtually every industry. He’s also described the current wave as an “industrial bubble,” where capital floods both good and bad ideas, but the underlying technology is real.