This post inspired me to reread Krauthammer's 1997 warning about AI. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/be-afraid-9802 I'm all for looking at the downsides of this technology, which I think are considerable. I've done some of that myself recently at https://www.splicetoday.com/digital/reality-and-hype-in-the-2020s But overall, I think the "we are forked" attitude is overblown. It undervalues humanity's capacity to adapt to new technologies, overlooks positive uses of the technologies, presents what I think is a simplistic vision of the human mind as easily replicated, and exemplifies an alarmist tendency in neoconservatism, where everything is Munich, everything is HAL, everything is doomed.