Here are my takes on AI. They are simple.
1. New tech is unstoppable, the more powerful the more unstoppable.
2. Instead of slowdown, alignment and safety, call for AI security solutions. Those could work and will make things if not safe, then at least safeβerβ
3. AI does not and will never have a soul or any form of consciousness
4. Human rights are predicated on humans not being copyable. AI is copiable and has no soul. Stop wasting air.
5. Most of proclaimed AI dangers are at the core - human dangers. Stop worrying about them
6. Most of anti-AI takes come from people worried about there existing non-human intellect. This is because humans have, for millennia, defined themselves as carriers of intellect. Get over it. Intellect is irrelevant to humanity. Come up with a new way to define yourself.