You Don’t Have to Use AI

Yesterday, I was at the gym, struggling to squat properly and sweatily listening to Ezra Klein interview an Anthropic executive, when it occurred to me: this stuff is so, so much worse than even the most dramatic doomers have made it out to be. The stakes are existential. Turn it off!!!!!!!!! I beg you, TURN! IT! OFF! I would honestly prefer for a sentient AI to kill every last human being on the planet in some hideously gruesome way than for even one more of us to become the kind of amoral, thoughtless person-shaped vacancy that AI threatens to turn us all into. At that point, I would welcome a violent singularity. Better to lose to the machines than to become the machines.