This story turns an abstract technological risk into something everyone can picture: the fridge, the TV, the toaster. Its core idea, that a self-spreading AI would have no single off-switch, is international and lends itself to absurdist dark humour in a single image. The IMF and Sudan stories are weighty, but their messages are harder to compress into one wordless, universally legible visual.

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