Completely agree on all you say. I was impelled to comment because AI is a tool much like a gun. It has a trigger and someone can jery rig up lots of ways to pull the trigger, but it's still the human taking the shot, not the string tied to the trigger, routed through a pulley, behind a curtain.

Those doing the conspiring are in fact aware that fear is a powerful control lever. Much of the fear is an illusion made believeable through constant marketing of the threat. Yes the threat is real, in the same way that the threat of a few well trained men could, say, derail train cars full of toxic chemicals, or destroy a remote gas pipeline.

I am encouraged by the nostr protocol becuase the common people might actually be able to connect with each other and build things that benefit each other. Our strenth is in remaining calm and trusting only those who are deserving of our trust. Othewise, "a thousand will tremble at the threat of one" and at the treat of five will flee in panic. -Isaiah 15-18