Where does this bailout narrative come from? There seems to be this 100% certain idea that the AI companies will collapse and when they do the government will bail them out.

They’re not banks which would wreck the economy by collapsing and they’re nothing like General Motors which needed a bailout to save 1.2 million jobs.

Intentionally using them as human shields before the fact is different than using this as a political narrative to justify what they want to do anyway after the fact.