I could see this as a thread for a short story. One of these billionaires manages to have their company develop an actual AI to drive robotaxis, but the fascist ideology of this billionaire is so baked into the AI that the only ethical thing it thinks it can do is self-clean its passengers to ash.
it's ''sanitizing'' in the misanthropist, eco-fascist sense of the word
I could see this as a thread for a short story. One of these billionaires manages to have their company develop an actual AI to drive robotaxis, but the fascist ideology of this billionaire is so baked into the AI that the only ethical thing it thinks it can do is self-clean its passengers to ash.