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"AI" is largely a marketing term for a particular type of computer program that uses a statistical language model.

Computers and computer programs are tools. Humans always remain sovereign over their tools.

And incentives are sovereign over the humans. The humans leading the AI labs have every incentive in the world to move quickly without any restraint.

The second law of thermodynamics always wins.

Eventually. In the meantime, here in the human socioeconomic sphere, you might be dealing primarily with the Second Rule of Fight Club and Operation Mayhem.

I am not sure how convinced I am by that argument. A gun is also a particular kind of tool, and it makes the person at the handle end sovereign, and the person at the pointy-shooty end subjugated.

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