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The risks go beyond the obvious - one should be looking at other ways that proliferation of AI could endanger humankind. For one, devolution has species-altering potential if not worse. We (and children) are increasingly relying on AI instruments for the simplest of tasks like writing essays, arithmetic calculations, and so on. We are devolving biologically faster than we have evolved in the last million years. Brains are shrinking fast enough to show significant decline in a few decades.

One can’t just sit back and wonder how an industrial revolution can be contained or suggest that it can’t. Instead, find ways to enforce regulations, advocates need to come forward and act. I wonder what the annual conventions run by the other section of leaders and billionaires (AI opponents) are doing and saying about this.

On the flip side, the recent elections perhaps could work in favour of the cause. Although I dread the far right and the implications, and think it doesn’t bode well for World progress, Trump’s alliance with Musk could actually help foster AI regulations to a great extent.

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