AI, "Humanity", and Dr. Manhattan Syndrome: A Communications Intervention

Greg Brockman, president of OpenAI, donated $25 million to a partisan political organization while publicly framing his work in abstract terms of benefiting "Humanity" rather than acknowledging the real people affected by such political choices. The author argues this reflects a broader pattern among AI executives who become so focused on grand, world-changing missions that they lose sight of actual human concerns—a phenomenon the author compares to Dr. Manhattan from "Watchmen," a godlike being who becomes detached from individual human suffering while pursuing abstract goals.