So if humans don't need to prompt coding AIs, then what value does the human add? It seems like the AI can just do it all, right? This sounds like Geoffrey Hinton's nightmare.

Female protagonists -- over it.

If the government owns 50% of the stock they won't simply have a say in the company, they will be controlling the company as its largest shareholder. So, really the tax is the way to nationalize the AI industry. Even Orwell couldn't have constructed this dystopia. But the CCP already has something like this in place to harness its data gathering and analysis for their Social Credit system.

The Left doesn't need AI to manufacture a torrent of hallucinations. That's already built in.

The issue isn't that indie amateur horror flicks are hot. The issue is Disney has ground the Star Wars franchise into the ground. But it was pretty near death even before that. The first 3 movies (technically the middle three, IV, V, and VI) where great. The 4th movie was (Star Wars I) was awful. And by the time the last three of the original 9 came out they where nearly unwatchable. After that, I avoid anything Star Wars like the plague. And I saw the original three when they came out. So, this old fan wants nothing to do with the Disney Star Wars slop that keeps oozing out like an infection that won't heal.

She also needs to sue the company that supplied the facial recognition capability. In fact, I hope she puts them out of business. Let them all lose their homes, cars and any shred of credibility.

Such bills are so over the top. California, Colorado, and soon Virginia, should be renamed to China West, China Central, and China East.

You are responsible for protecting your own research/work product. If I'm using AI for something, I not only store the results, but also the prompts and chats as text files in git pushed to a remote private repo. Because losing days, much less years of work really sucks. Though, if you are using AI to create work products, how much of that is really your work? Prompt engineering is a thing, so that's your work. And having backups of that is essential. But the output? I think that's debatable, especially if you don't give credit to AI where it is due. Did your research methods document AI in your workflows? Did your students know that materials you supplied to them in their instruction was generated by AI? Well, they do now.

The OP never answers the question as to how the investments in AI will pay out. No current monetization model can get to break even much less profit. So, eventually investors are going to figure out the "pass the cash" scheme and that AGI isn't going to happen with the current approach, i.e. LLMs. But along with this mega bubble is the real estate bubble, debt bubble (aka bonds), and other stocks are also grossly overvalued. If any of these bubbles pop, then I don't see nay stop gap to keep them for all popping in rapid succession. If they do, the fallout will be global and the recovery time will be measured in decades.

Huxley's Brave New World had mechanical incubators, but at least you needed sperm and egg cells to make a human. It didn't have enough imagination or bravado to suggest flaky skin cells bathed in sperm could produce one. I'd say that just because you can do that, doesn't mean you should. It seems like this would make the female version obsolete, or at least relegated to baby carrying, that is until we come up with mechanical incubators. Ugh!!!

Biblical references aside, we cede more and more of our own lives for every promise of convenience and safety thus devaluing our humanity. When the robots take over you won't have noticed since you will have become one.

Nuff said.

This is right out of the dystopian Brave New World and should be outlawed. "Future" children are existing children still in the womb and parents seeking these tests (and medical facilities offering them) are willing to sacrifice the unborn for their own comfort. This demeans all human life. I'm all for genetic counseling for potential parents looking to have babies. But after conception, "potential" parents ARE parents, and "future" children ARE children. To say otherwise is to euphemize murder. What comes next? Tossing the old and infirm into ovens??

I also learned to touch type in middle school (we called it Junior High at the time) on a manual typewriter. I'm still writing software. managing networks, and producing documentation. I don't know how I'd get all that done without being a touch typist/keyboardist. My productivity is affected not only by being able to type without looking at the keyboard, but also forcing myself to maximize use of keyboard shortcuts. I wrote this without having to look at the keyboard. Sadly, I love clicky keyboards (Cherry MX Blue). I'm not sure what my colleagues think of that but if I was using those with hunt and peck, I'd probably drive them nuts.

Deus Ex may not be the first of its kind but it is one of the best of its kind. Just like Doom marked a huge leap in FPS games, Deus Ex marked a huge leap in RPG with deep story telling and meaningful choices in building the player character and providing many ways to solve a problem.