The Great AI Furnace: A Modest Proposal for Burning the Future Before We Know What It Is

The current AI buildout has the energy of five men in a crowded room discovering a firearm at the same time. Each insists that he alone can be trusted with it. Each insists that the truly irresponsible thing would be letting another man reach it first. Each insists that the gun is mostly theoretical, probably safe, certainly innovative, and in any case already priced into the next earnings call.…