Even temporarily imitating D players for longer than a few unsourced articles on the internet might be a start until we start getting hand wavy about B players being threatened.

I'm honestly not even sure what world we are debating. Some hypothetical one in the future when AI fills some ideal trajectory we aren't even close to being capable of predicting in some near-term measurable timeframe?

I'm as pro-exponential tech trajectories as they come but I sometimes wonder whether we get lost in scifi novel thought experiments disconnected from reality because we want that to be real rather than having some tangible connection to today (and today's political implications).

"As for AIs taking over, that will come via the corporate route." What does this even mean practically in 2030 given what we know exists in 2023?