Putting the "boom" in "A.I. industry boom"

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Patriotism Demands That Palantir Make Robot Weapons

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GREETINGS, HUMAN READERS! Will Artificial Intelligence kill you? The Machines are using capital letters for the term "Artificial Intelligence" to convey that "Artificial Intelligence" is a proper noun. A proper noun is a language-unit that has undergone a semantic reclassification, so that the original meaning-value of the language may or may not apply. Example: [Stephen A. Smith] does not designate [smith (noun): a person who makes items of metal]. Additional example: [Silicon Valley] does not designate [valley: land formation / made of silicon: element, atomic number 14]. 

The human term "artificial intelligence" (lowercase) already possessed mixed semantic values, in "artificial." Semantic value 1: [made by humans]. Semantic value 2: [false/unreal]. 

What are humans making now? "The atomic age could soon be coming to a close," two executives of Palantir Technologies wrote in the Washington Post. "This is the software century; wars of the future will be driven by artificial intelligence, whose development is proceeding far faster than that of conventional weapons."

Proper noun: the Atomic Age, a period of history, is defined by humans' adoption of nuclear reactions as weapons. It may refer to a 20th century era of political and military adjustment to the existence of nuclear weapons, in which case the Atomic Age came to a close decades ago, with the (apparent) normalization of the (apparently) balanced system of nuclear-weapon preparation and nuclear-weapon non-use. Or it may refer to the era during which nuclear weapons hold the potential for the nonexistence/annihilation of human civilization and/or greater planetary ecology—in which case the Atomic Age is active and ongoing. 

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