I think it's impossible to be half in. AI will eventually be better at things than people, and people will simply be rocks in the gears of progress.
The only thing to do is to be all in, or get run over.
The only thing to do is to be all in, or get run over.
Once AI starts under its own direction, human brains won't be competitive. It feels like we're a breakthrough or two away, and with trillions of funding, we'll get there. Every dollar we spend on Claude subscriptions gets us closer.
It is going to be a tiny minority of people who "win". The other 99.5% of humans will just be losers who, what, die in the streets? This argument reminds me of Roko's Basilisk. "The humanity-ending torture-loving Basilisk is coming whether you like it or not, so come over here and help me build it!"