This week, AI researchers warned that the technology they are building could pose an existential threat to humanity. At almost exactly the same time, some of the biggest financial institutions in the world were working to open a very different door for those same companies. One story dominated the headlines. The other barely registered. This video looks at what happens when AI safety, financial incentives, engineering failures and public fear collide, and asks whether we are paying attention to the risk that is easiest to dramatise while quietly ignoring the one already being built into the system.