As a patient with metastatic cancer, my story is on the other side. I was going around to Dr's for a year or more trying to figure out why I was feeling more and more exhausted. (I say Dr's but don't remember if I ever got seen by more than a nurse practitioner). I kept saying I felt like it was something physical, but got sidetracked into psychiatry. I had visible lumps under my skin and everybody said, well it's probably just lipomas. In the end I got undeniable symptoms and was finally given a chest xray, which (unlike an MRI) costs like $99. By then it had spread everywhere. So far I have lived almost a year, which at one point was deemed highly unlikely, but it has cost my insurers well over $1M and counting.

I've read MRI scans require helium, and there is currently a shortage. It's not practically renewable or recyclable so far. If everyone gets an MRI it could cause a severe shortage.

I wonder if the tech can be reworked to not require helium or any other hard-to-find resource.

Just checked the Ukraine wind-map. Winds generally toward the north-west. Thus Russian damage to the Chernobyl cladding threatens Western Europe with radiation fallout. Teach those Euros to support  the Ukraine against Russian aggression. Mebby the French need to scatter  5-tons of their dirty reactor-waste over Moscow and see how Ivan fares.  Oh wait ...  better start with one of Russias Black Sea resorts filled with "party" members and mafia. No reason to casually mess-up some of the best museums in the world.

Didn't know the limitation; U-24.04/Librewolf seem to give me many choices. But, I am happy being able to see anything{ zoomzoomzoom...) , let alone worry about type-face.

Super-intelligent AI also  finds  human servants desirable ...  and the multi-billionaires (currently ) fill that slot. Billionaires understand the concept of "top warlord" even if limp-wristed modern peons do not. If that top warlord is an *AI complex so-be-it.
And there's the odd/unlikely case that W/O human awareness reality ceases to exist ... several serious physicists have speculated along those lines.  In this strange  ( but, possible ) case,  my guess is that a hyper-intelligent machine would try continuing to exist and keep a supply of human servants. 

Partner you are speculating maximum dystopia. Yet it's true.  Human population does NOT have to be billions, but could be 50-75 million and still produce servants for  an AI-master race. Sound incredible, but sadly you are more likely to be correct. Even sadder, like most who care, I'm past the age to die stopping it with the melted barrel of my Mauser-98  gracing my cold dead paw.

My ancient XEON 1240-V3 will be getting a new 500-G SSD and GF 3050 GPU .  Would not consider touching systems  24-G Crucial ram ( the bastards screw loyal hobbyists ).

This. It seems that the US has forgotten the '80s automotive malaise era. Trump has tried to start a fresh one before and it looks like this time he's succeeding.

"We the People" are an armed mobocracy , tending toward violent tyranny.  Such socialists are rotted with envy of their betters. Think ant-hill and Maoism. Corporations are sets of freely organized subscribers. Such productive liberals thrive in a (re)publican  marketplace / bazaar. Think guilds and David Packard.

Legally that makes sense. Although, I really think AI's paying content producers for providing access to their information is the right way to go, long term. If NYT is going to hire reporters to go places and find out stuff somebody has to pay for it. AI is great partially because it bypasses the horrendous mess the Web has become, but that's too good to last.

Are politically-"minded" chatbots/LLMs any more persuasive than a good encyclopedia  ?  Or reading "Foreign Affairs" /  "The Federalist Papers"?  Or pillow-talking with your best-gal on a night with a full moon  ?

Sorry Charlie.  The  19-th Century competition/trait  model of evolution is dead. It's all  genetic drift and macro-happenstance ... that is apart from trivia no fitness-criteria supports species survival. When the asteroid hits or the volcano vomits or oxygen skyrockets  or the sun farts  radiation or the earth wiggles ...  species either live or die.

Claims, predictions , circle-jerk financials and personal experience are simple ...  generating net profit to shareholders  is hard.  Post-modern *.ai companies are ( expensively ) packaging guessed text-completion  very like 2008 banks packaged insured mortgages.  Results will be the same, tho I pray  gub'mnt lets GOOG/FBOOK/AZON etc go broke rather than refinance their "exuberance". Fetterman ( I assume the next president ) seems quite unlike the Bush family.

need to ban 3D printers

Ban 3D morons.

The M.E. has a way of driving everyone crazy; you are damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Put HAZMAT tape around the area and warn everybody away. Leave them on their own, giving them no food nor weapons; if they bonk each other to oblivion, it's their problem, not ours. I think it's God's Insane Asylum.

Non-nuts have migrated somewhere quieter, leaving mostly nuts in place, a Sanity Filter. I'm just the messenger.