AI comes for the job market, security, and prosperity

> “No one my age wants AI. No one is excited about it,” she told me of her high-school-age peers.

> OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was telling he US Federal Reserve’s board of governors...

> Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told Axios he believes...

> Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said ...

> Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke told staff ...

> Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford, recently said ...

Does this feel at all like a democratic process? We can claim to be a democracy, but functionally it's clear that we are not living in one when all the most important decisions are being made by CEOs.

And finally: "It would be naïve to think we are going back to a world without AI."

Why is that? Shouldn't we, as a democratic society, be able to decide whether we want to adopt any technology, especially one as destructive as AI? (h/t to Neal Stephenson and his Seveneves, where he explores this topic under the moniker 'Amistics').