> * "if you create the descendants of humanity from a place of, deep fear and panic and anxiety, that seems to me you're likely to make some very bad choices or

> * "if you create the descendants of humanity from a place of, deep fear and panic and anxiety, that seems to me you're likely to make some very bad choices or certainly not reflect the best of humanity." This line of reasoning doesn't hold for me, as you could apply it to any technology, including ones actually very likely to destroy human civilization. Sometimes, not building a given thing at all is better than building it with even the best intentions. I'm personally not sure on which side AI falls, but denying that such things exist at all seems intellectually dishonest.