I never said anything about stopping AI. I just pointed out that rushing into something that could make things better has historically involved an awful lot of

I never said anything about stopping AI. I just pointed out that rushing into something that could make things better has historically involved an awful lot of suffering for people. An awful lot of things that were promoted as short term suffering for some people to make life better for everone (that remained) turned out to be long on the suffering and short on the "better". So here's my thinking about an alternate plan: What if we moved forward in a way that both advances the tech and also doesn't force suffering on people? This is possible. There is no evidence that any of your promises, maybes and coulds are anything but words, and as such you are gambling other people's lives. The idea that "maybe we can help people in the future if we hurt them now" is merely a delusion without evidence, a lie those that hurt people on a whim tell themselves to justify and hide their true motives.