You are wrong. At least when it comes to AGI, which is the only kind of AI that really needs to be prevented from existing. Your conclusions are based on fuzzy

You are wrong. At least when it comes to AGI, which is the only kind of AI that really needs to be prevented from existing. Your conclusions are based on fuzzy thinking and extrapolating old and irrelevant data. We can control businesses. And as for someone in their basement, it isn’t clear at all that one could develop AGI in their basement. AGIs discovery will probably require massive, massive amounts of compute. More than could fit in a basement or be powered by domestic grid connections without drawing attention. Good luck holding the military back? You are talking about the US right? The military and every other government entity answers to the people either directly or indirectly. If enough ordinary people wanted it, the constitution of the United States itself could be amended into the ITunes terms of service. And since AGI is to the detriment of literally every human being on the planet, I think some basic legislation might be able to be passed. Don’t succumb to these notions of hopelessness. They are wrong. And you even spread them around which just makes solving the problem even harder.