"you will all lose your jobs and it will wipe out half of humanity."

If you lead with this, people will stop questioning why their sprint velocity hasn't increased 10 fold. Managers start asking leads, instead of hiring more devs can we add Agent.md to our repos?

The Apocalypse sells. They are afraid that you'll find out that AI is just another useful tool. That's the real threat, not to humanity, but to their hype.

Edit: i made a video about this recently: https://youtu.be/nB0Vz-fh8EI