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You're talking about wiping hundreds of billions of market cap from Nvidia/Google/OpenAI/Anthropic/Amazon/Meta etc, and also the loss of a very large number of tech jobs. It's hard to imagine any country volunteering to wound its own economy so severely.

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> It's hard to imagine any country volunteering to wound its own economy so severely.

Yeah, imagine shutting down all the basic research that has driven the economy for the last 75 years, in a matter of months. Crazy. Nobody would do that.

Did the AI company tech workers get summoned into existence in 2023? Would they not have most likely been working somewhere else?

And what about jobs lost (or never created) due to AI itself?

Would not Google/Amazon/Meta have continued on to advance their product lines and make new products, even if not AI? Would not other new non-AI companies have been created?

I'm not convinced that the two options are, "everything as it is right now", or, "the entire economy is collapsed".

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