All the negativity really is an understandable response to so many negative changes to the status quo way of life, but I can't help but take a step back as a realist and say that Pandora's box is open.

That is not to say we are powerless to regulate aspects of how this technology is legally utilized, but this sort of quasi-luddite "turn it off" response is totally infeasible.

The best bet we have for making the AI future suck less is by building things which make life more compatible with AI. That means a revamp of how we handle intellectual property, how we handle education, how we manage an economy humanely in a world where human labor potential is comparatively diminished.

We need to focus upward toward the things that can make humanity able to handle the transition. Not downward toward the sand where we can pretend it isn't happening.

EDIT: please respond if you're going to take away my karma for my honest opinion. I use AI almost every waking hour but we have to be realists about the impacts on society