From the TFA:

> That’s why we (at DuckDuckGo) started offering Duck.ai for protected chatbot conversations and optional, anonymous AI-assisted answers in our private search engine. In doing so, we’re demonstrating that privacy-respecting AI services are feasible.

I don't know if its a great idea, or just I wonder what does make it feasible, but there is a kind of implied recommendation here.

By "killing innovation" do you just mean: "we need to allow these companies to make money in possibly a predatory way, so they have the money to do... something else"? Or what is the precise concern here? What facet needs to be innovated upon?

The country who most effectively deploys AI models has a big advantage over countries who bury their head in the sand.

I believe that LLM’s will have the capability to fill in for human workers in many important ways. It’s like getting an economic infusion without the associated population growth required.

But we aren’t there yet, so innovation looks like continuing to build out how to efficiently use AI tools. Not necessarily better models, but longer memory, more critical reasoning, etc.

At the same time…there are winner-take-all dynamics and possibility to weaponize that are not good for society in the long-term.

So we need to both encourage innovation while making sure we don’t kill each other in the process.