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1. It will take over many creative pursuits, taking away the feeling of usefulness from many people.
2. It will cause humans to be too independent from each other, and remove the sense of community (technology does this to some extent, only AI enhances the effect much more so)
3. It will concentrate wealth into the hands of tech companies, who relentlessly make life worse by continually making consumerism more efficient and thereby destroying our connection with the natural world
4. It will create disinformation and be a tool of manipulation and crime that will be hard to counteract (such as spoofing, etc.)
5. It will foster a world where there is far too much information, which itself plays on our basal instinct to collect information. This instinct was adaptive in the time of information scarcity, but is now maladaptive
And many other reasons....
Species decimation: Satellite imagery has been used to expose illegal farming, mining, etc. operations that would have been otherwise undetected for a long time. Yay biodiversity!
Destruction of communities: Idk man I feel like Starlink is helping communities a lot by providing cheap and fast shared internet to communities that wouldn't otherwise have the technology.
It's not just my comforts that I'm thinking about. Rockets while individually may be seen as useless, just like AI, are a platform where a lot of overwhelmingly positive projects could stem from.
The critiques you mentioned could be applied to mobile phones. I doubt you would actually agree phones have no place in society - it's not just comforts that are a positive.
Health and other related research getting massive boosts by future more powerful AI is not a "net negative", if you don't wanna live longer or have your family not die of an illness then good for you, not everyone thinks the same
Your fifth point is largely moot, since there's already more information available to people than anyone could possibly obtain in their lifetime, and the amount is growing faster than anybody could consume it. The problem can't really get any worse.
Your fourth point is more interesting, but I'd argue that the tech is already widely available for any type of crime you'd want to commit using AI. Banning it at this point just makes it so that only the criminals have access to it, and ceasing further progress on AI doesn't really make sense because from here, improvements will benefit legitimate users who want consistent, correct responses from their chatbots far moreso than the criminals who can afford to cast wide nets.
I would argue that this isn't really the case; the number of people who have the ability to create something at the level of ChatGPT or to make use of what's out there right now properly, is really quite small.
In that sense, if we were to utterly ban the tech, right now, it would probably be sufficient to prevent criminals from using it for most of the things it will be used for criminally, 5 years from now. It's too niche of a field, in its infancy, that if it were utterly and completely shut down, the cartels would not pick up the tab to single-handedly do it themselves.
Obviously that won't happen though, nor am I advocating for it. Personally I think the good done will outtweigh the bad many, many times over.
You are confusing the reality with the theory.
We are in a (broader sense of) capitalist society. The same applies to the self-procalimed communism China.There are exception.
Is all power equal? Here in New Zealand a large amount of our energy is green and comes from hydroelectric - how does this compare to the many many dirty coal power stations in China?
What about something like an Aluminium smeltering plant? ... it doesn't need many people relativly speaking, but it consumes an enormous amount of energy and produces a good chunk of the worlds aluminium.
How would this be enforced geo-politically? Or do you just want to enforce it in your own country so that all of your businesses become uncompetitive and your economy tanks?
No.
We should be dedicating a lot more resources - at all levels - toward developing AI faster. Much faster.