How to Stop AI

I believe one of the great battle lines of the future will be between artificialists who’d support improving AI and sapienists who won’t.

The two will largely divide along our existing ideological lines where leftist technocrats leveraging the poor will start with a competitive advantage over the American middle class, but as AI improves it could lift more Americans into the middle class, therefore, strengthening our ability and will to stop it or it could be used to exacerbate inequality so that artificialists can continue to hold the door open to oblivion.

Artificialists will want to keep the door open to a self-generating monster even as the risks of AI increasingly outweigh the rewards for a variety of reasons: curiosity, hedonism, learned helplessness, misanthropism, thanatophobia, AI worship, etc.

But I think before AI could destroy us, a foreign power would dominate us.

You see, during the Cold War, the US and the USSR both had enough nukes to destroy the other, but they didn’t do so because the other would’ve had enough time to launch a retaliatory attack, i.e. mutually assured destruction.