The Financial Post reports in its Monday, Sept. 21, edition that the furious debate over artificial intelligence has hardened into warring camps. An Agence-France Presse dispatch to The Globe reports that AI is now the backbone of the economy and could decide the future of the planet. Fear of technology's dangerous consequences for society goes back far in history. Today, most of the doomers warning against the impact of AI come from inside the companies themselves, from academia, or both. Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic PBC, represents those in the AI industry. He left OpenAI over concerns that the company, led by Sam Altman, wasn't adequately addressing the potential risks of the technology. His stance is decried as hypocritical, coming from a company that is itself pushing out cutting-edge technology. Diametrically opposed to the doomers are the accelerationists, who believe in technology's advancement, its inevitability and its fundamental benefit for society -- and who also make their fortunes on its success. Doomers are accused of being a front for firms seeking to use regulation to crush rivals. OpenAI speaks to AI's dangers while still accelerating and cozying up to a no-holds-barred White House.