The steam engine couldn't be uninvented. Oil was always going to generate massive economic gains. Electrification was inevitable once it began. The internet reshaped (and continues to reshape) our economy, whether people like it or not.
Profound technological changes are part of a larger process of human knowledge acquisition and implementation, an evolutionary process that is larger than any one person, nation, ideology, or even civilization.
Thus, it is irrational to talk about 'stopping' or 'resisting' AI, because to do so would mean trying to resist human evolution itself.
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