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Somebody should write a book...

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>And it has led a dangerous fringe into advocating for slowing or stopping AI research

The "dangerous fringe" including the very set of pioneering AI pundits, AI researchers and AI enterpreneurs, who have all warned about its dangers, sometimes calling them "existential"?

Right or wrong, those are not some crazy fringes, they're at the very core of AI. The rest is their employees, marketeers, and resellers.

> which we all know from the historical precedent, would cause a deadly stagnation killing hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Americans.

If "slowing or stopping AI research" is enough to cause "a deadly stagnation killing hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Americans", then perhaps the country is in dire need of a balanced robust multi-faceted economy - and has given on that, hoping for miraculus technological solutions with religious fervor instead.

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