Dean Ing wrote a SF novel 'Butcher Bird' exploring this. Why is humanity stuck in the same story? We make something cool. We then commoditize it. We then milita

Dean Ing wrote a SF novel 'Butcher Bird' exploring this. Why is humanity stuck in the same story? We make something cool. We then commoditize it. We then militarize it. I think every tool/discovery/thing we invent/produce should also be introduced with its own antidote/kill switch. Clearly a malevolent state would be able to excise the the suicide switch in the chip, but at least this is a start. Deploying an EMP device at scale is a lot harder than activating a paralysis/suicide switch. After all, not everyone can deploy their own custom cpu. And the REAL worry is when a script kiddy gets one of these and deploys them at the next protest. I dont want to say the 'T' word. By making commodity hardware fragile and defeatable, we protect ourselves against our dark side. And no matter how good an AI gets at face recognition/inference/etc, we will still be able to turn it off. Did we not learn the lesson of 'Colossus: The Forbin Project'