It's unlikely that we'll ever be able to put the genie back in the bottle. The potentially limitless power of AI is going to be too much of a temptation for so

It's unlikely that we'll ever be able to put the genie back in the bottle. The potentially limitless power of AI is going to be too much of a temptation for some governments, militaries, powerful individuals, and various groups to resist. Ban AI in one place and it'll just be developed somewhere else. That's not to say we should simply march forward with our eyes closed, but efforts to stop AI are highly unlikely to succeed. Jacques Ellul[1] talked about the almost inevitable and freedom-denying aspects of what he called "technique" (really the relentless drive towards efficiency across all disciplines) in The Technological Society[2]. Ellul's thought inspired the Unabomber, though Ellul himself never advocated violence as a response. As we all know, the Unabomber did not himself stop technological progress... he did manage to spread his ideas a bit, but that hasn't seem to have had any effect either. I'm completely against violence myself, and unequivocally condemn terrorism of all sorts (including the Unabomber). Not only is it unethical and immoral, but it's ineffective and counterproductive. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Ellul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Ellul [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Technological_Society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Technological_Society