If we don't innovate, someone else will. This is the very nature of being a human being. We summit mountains, regardless of the danger or challenge.

>If we don't innovate, someone else will.

Terrible take. You don't get to push the extinction button just because you think China will beat you to the punch.

>This is the very nature of being a human being. We summit mountains, regardless of the danger or challenge.

No, just no... We barely survived the Cold War, at times because of pure luck. AI is at least as dangerous as that, if not more. We have far exceeded our wisdom relative to our capabilities. As you have so cleanly demonstrated.