The Atlantic discovers AI panic sells magazines, uses biggest eye they could find

The Atlantic serves up apocalyptic theatre disguised as journalism—a glowing demonic eye against black void because subtlety died in 2019. This is what happens when tech writers discover existential dread makes better cover art than actual analysis. The industry's doomers getting doomier becomes clickbait fuel wrapped in editorial gravitas, complete with dramatic illustration that screams 'we are Very Serious People concerned about Very Important Things.'