This is possibly the most egregiously and malevolently misleading piece of propaganda about AI that I have seen. Written presumably by a person, making an effe

This is possibly the most egregiously and malevolently misleading piece of propaganda about AI that I have seen. Written presumably by a person, making an effective counterargument against their own claim. Free and open, unfettered development of AI is a fundamental human right. LLMs are nothing more (and nothing less) than marvelously effective parsers for the cultural-linguistic heritage generated by all of humanity. The n-dimensional matrix of vector data represented in the sum total of human intellectual output is THE legacy of humankind, and is the precious and vital commons of all humanity. To regulate and close access to tools required to parse that information in newly effective ways, tools that make that heritage accessible and available to humanity at large, represents nothing less that an attempt to hobble and intellectually restrain humanity itself, to criminalize the unconstrained enlightenment of humankind, as “uniquely dangerous” . Yes, access to information and knowledge is uniquely dangerous, in the same way that allowing the everyperson access to libraries and reading is. This article might just as well be arguing to restrict the teaching of reading, as well as access to books and the internet to an “approved list” for public consumption. To see this published in IEEE is a serious disappointment. I will be withdrawing my affiliation with them unless a retraction is made.