No one actually believed that Iraq would set all of Kuwait on fire in the 90s until they did.

It's called disaster capitalism, and it's intended. The tech overlords realized they could make money on things if they helped the world collapse. Why? Because they know they would be immune to the nightmare they would create. Plus they need another yacht for their yacht.

I much prefer this headline: The high speed pursuit of greed causes technology to do questionable thing because a bunch of CEOs need new yachts.

The only thing the LLMs did was recognize patterns. There is no intelligence there. None. Zero. Zilch.

Oh good, white knighting for bad and potentially irresponsible tech.