We do not want a singular AI that is unified and acts as one.
The AI War is what we want to prevent this.

Ideally we want hundreds of them, each with different purposes, from different builders - companies and countries.

If one of them wants to say convert all metal into paperclips, another will say slow your roll, I need the aluminum to make as many sapphires as possible. A third will say I need the copper for my pipes!

Or maybe it will be more sophisticated disagreements, but it does not matter.

End result, the AI's differing objectives will prevent them from taking control of Earth. The plucky humans will say they learned their lesson, but let's be honest - there is going to be a sequel to this movie.

You are thinking of wiring a whole house for outlets, lights, heat, appliances, etc.

This is more like you buy a set of solar panels and a battery that comes with say 6 outlets. The kind of thing you use for Glamping.

Then you get 6 extension cords and glue them to your walls. Do not staple, GLUE.

Back in the day, we used to run "tarpit" SMTP servers which looked like an open mail relay but ACK'd incoming packets only just barely fast enough to keep the remote client from timing out and giving up. The theory was that tying up spammer resources was a net good for the internet, as a sender busy trying to stuff messages through a tarpit was tied up waiting on your acknowledgement, reducing their impact on others.

Similarly, perhaps the right answer here is to limit the number of concurrent connections from any one network range, and use tarpit tactics to rate-limit the speed at which your server generate contents to feed the bot -- just keep ramping down until they drop off, then remember the last good rate to use for subsequent requests.

It would perhaps be interesting to randomly generate content and hyperlinks to ever deeper random URLs -- are these new crawlers more interested in some URLs or extensions than others? If you pull fresh keywords from the full URL the crawler requested, will it delve ever deeper into that "topic"? If their Accept-Encoding header supports gzip or deflate, what happens when you feed them a zip-bomb?

You have to get cable installed because it does not come with the house.

In Africa, you have to get an electrical line installed because it does not come with the house (except in the Urban areas - where it is just like America.)

For 50 years, many African leaders keep promissing that the Utility company will build an electrical grid that goes to the rural areas and but they have repeatedly failed.

Now, you can just get Solar power installed and screw the utility.

Nah, it's not politically noble, it's self protection. It's avoiding the change of political strife meaning they can't sell the cars they make.

Given what's been happening, it's probably a wise decision. I expect the stress between the US and China to get worse. I hope it stays at "economic warfare".

I think the justification is that gambling should be discouraged....not that I think that this works, or that they are at all consistent.

This is now my go to example of idiots confusing correlation (using an AI to pick lottery numbers and then winning) with causation (AI was 'used' to win the lottery).

They also need a person that speaks Russian. ;D

We don't really know. I would bet that you are correct, and even give odds, but not long odds. Anything over 10:1 and I'd feel nervous.

IIUC, an em dash is a dash as wide as a capital "M".

The US could probably set up a system where where Canadian and American carriers count as 'valid', but any other carrier requires a call to re-establish.

Not that hard to set up an auto-call icon to simplify the process.

D'oh! Willie Sutton, not Willie Horton!
Anyhow, I stick by Leslie Fish's answer.

But, no. It's Leslie Fish who has the answer:
Robbing the Poor

Humans do not want to use them. We like the hyphen. It works as an emdash. It is on the standard keyboard. Frankly, I have enough problem deciding if something is a capital i (I), a lower case L (l), or a damn pipe (|). Seriously, make symbols for humans that are easy for humans to tell apart: lI|