The devastating devastating part about the rapid rise of AI

The part of the rise of AI that I keep thinking about isn't the fact that it could wipe out humanity, but that even if it doesn't, the likelihood of us surviving this transition is very low. <br><br>Climate change is a great example. We knew it was coming for decades, and we (humans) totally did nothing to stop it. We knew cigarettes were bad for us, and we still let ourselves get addicted and now people are dying of heart disease. <br><br>I think that if we (humans) had a little more time to react to the rise of AI, we could take a number of steps to prevent it from being too destructive. I think that prevents us from doing that is our own addiction to AI. We can't resist the convenience, the promise of it, the fear of missing out, etc. I'm sure that even if we wanted to, we can't stop the movement of AI. We don't have the leadership, we don't have the knowledge, and we don't have the ability to act fast enough. <br><br>But even if we were smart enough to try, I think there are no single person or group that could single handedly make the changes needed to protect humanity. Governments rarely act proactively and even if they were motivated to, they couldn't act fast enough to prevent the rise of AI. The people with the knowledge of AI (like the developers of ChatGPT) know that the AI is a gold mine and they don't want to get in the way of making billions of dollars. Most people who are against the rise of AI don't have a clue of how to slow it down and are almost powerless to stop it. I think even if we wanted to, we couldn't stop the momentum of AI.