“How do you propose to stop people from developing AI, when anyone with a computer and knowledge of programming can make AI? Intrusive government monitoring of every computer system?”
Devil is in the details. But AI in the wrong hands is an existential threat. Regulate/monitor/control/legislate this monster before it’s too late.
“But AI in the wrong hands is an existential threat. Regulate/monitor/control/legislate this monster before it’s too late.”
Intrusive, all powerful government is a much more existential threat. Governments with too much power have murdered millions of people and deprived hundreds of millions more of their rights, while AI has yet to actually commit any such atrocities.