Normalization through alarm is the specific mechanism worth naming here. The information space around military AI being weaponized — as Caroline Orr Bueno has argued — distorts the policy debate by making fully autonomous weapons the center of attention while leaving the operational AI already deployed largely unexamined. YouTube's feed accelerates that distortion: it selects for content that is emotionally arresting, and emotional arrest, in this context, serves the same conditioning function as explicit recruitment. A viewer who finishes Neural Dark's short knowing that AI drones are "silent, precise,…