Somehow I'm not surprised you're in favor of letting silicon valley, and the 'game over for humanity' existential threat of AI as incarnated by inanimate, literally lifeless, soulless, bloodless computers, and so-called killer robots whose advent onto the crime fighting scene is probably inevitable in any case. It couldn't get much more dystopian than that, and I would rather have the odd mass shooting or truck rampage, than a regime of AI overlords and armed quad-copter drones freely stalking our flesh and blood human presence, in the name of safe, predictable, corporate-approved social order and harmony. We're already hyper-monitored online, everything we ever say or type or do. So we'll let China go down that road. In America we're a little hardier than that.
And America doesn't have any best and brightest anymore. We just have the meritocracy. Definitely not the same thing. And you get whatever you get, typically the sons/daughters of the wealthy, who are not at all the best or brightest, nor were their parents. And then just academic grinders and strivers, who are frequently of exceedingly mediocre intellect. I guess when you get to the narrow discipline of computer coding, the cream can still rise to the top. But to what end? The godfather of AI and neural networks warning the public about the distinct possibility of human extinction on account of this AI you want rolled out?
No thanks!
