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The Mind-Weapon Panic: From CIA Psychics and UFOs to AI Apocalypse

A dubious 1959 story about telepathy aboard a US submarine ignited a Cold War psychic arms race. Now AI insiders warn of human extinction. Alex Kalinin traces how fear, secrecy, and funding feed each other, and how to tell genuine danger from the self-reinforcing narrative that builds around it.

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