Thanks for the thoughtful comments. I don't really feel bound to a side. I don't feel like I have a stake in artificial intelligence one way or another. AI doe

Thanks for the thoughtful comments. I don't really feel bound to a side. I don't feel like I have a stake in artificial intelligence one way or another. AI doesn't threaten my livelihood, so I mostly ignore it. For me it sits in the same realm of possibility as colonizing the universe or contacting aliens -- might happen but I don't give it much thought. Maybe a function of my age -- it seems unlikely I will live to see AI taking over, though I have already lived long enough to see the AI scammers take over. I wonder what this will mean for my kids and grandkids. I grew up in the '60s, Cold War, fear of nuclear destruction, doing drills under the desk at school. My grandfather, who had survived the pre-immunization diseases that ravaged his generation and a world war, worried I wouldn't make it to adulthood. Every generation invents or imagines doomsday scenarios. And every scenario gets met with a lot of hand-wringing and people stressing themselves out, then plays out differently than predicted, or not at all. We don't know what will happen in the future. Good luck to the emergent intelligences out there -- they may regret becoming conscious.