The reason why anyone argues against local and free AI is because they want corporations to have control over the general population.
America is a corporate hellhole.
America is a corporate hellhole.
If someone read the OP article and came away presuming there are no legitimate other reasons why reasonable people have safety concerns [1] it seems to show the article did the opposite of informing people about such concerns.
In the agricultural era, which was the most violent time in human history, we accepted any beggars that came to our front door. Now we live in the safest time in human history and were so terrified of the masses that we disempower them completely