The optimal amount of generative AI in the world is zero. There are three possible scenarios, all of them bad:

1. Weaker than expected AI.

Great Depression 2.0. Widespread poverty and suffering as the enormous investments already made fail to pay off.

2. AI works as expected.

Dystopia. A few trillionaires gain absolute control of the entire world, and everyone else is enslaved or killed.

3. Stronger than excepted AI.

Hard take-off singularity scenario. Extinction of all biological life.

It's probably hopeless to resist at this point, but we should at least try.