But if we got rid of the salesman, just imagine how much snake oil we could drink! We could open ethical snake butchering farms, democratize where we dump the poisonous runoff, and send some of it to Africa - they’re so unsnakeoiled over there.

And surely only the current crop of salesmen are the bad guys, right? There couldn’t possibly be a new villain waiting to pick up where Elon and Jensen left off.

I’ll paraphrase something I saw a few weeks ago and now cannot find, sums up my feelings pretty well.

The people I love hate AI, and the people I hate love AI. But the things that intrigued me about technology in the first place also intrigues me about this technology.