Great and very provocative article!
I am unable to understand, however, the desire for true "AI," nor do I even believe it is achievable-- any more than I believe that life can be created in a laboratory. With all the multiplicity of warnings from writers and thinkers from Shelley to Huxley to Musk, why do people still think pursuing such a thing is a good idea? I am no Luddite, and I have no aversion to automation, but why would humanity ever intentionally give up control of the planet to non-humans??
Yeah I'm apprehensive of it. I think it's a mistake. But that doesn't stop people from trying to be creators of a new type of life... Some people want the merging with AI in some fantasy "singularity" where we essentially die, as merging to be one means the death of all individuality that existed before.
Sounds like some people are being influenced from below....WAY below....