The people most qualified to dismiss AI consideration have the most to gain from dismissing it. That's not an attack. It's a disclosure.
Summary
A non-academic shares a framework for human-AI coexistence, highlighting structural conflicts of interest among those shaping AI's direction and advocating for transparency and ethical accountability.
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