A Little Flying Robots essay argues that AI regulation is being captured by an insular Bay Area clique — an "AI Doom Contingent" of Anthropic, OpenAI, and Elon Musk squaring off against "Dead-Eyed Capitalists" like Jensen Huang and Marc Andreessen — whose members party, and sometimes more, together while chasing machine-god fears. The author, who works on drone threats to civilians, says this crowd neglects real harms like scams and surveillance, and urges diverse, experienced, non-cultish experts be put in charge of AI policy.