It is unAmerican to give power without checks and balances.

AI companies have indeed stolen too much data from too many hard-working people!

I disagree. The people who own AI companies have stolen enough of our data!

Agreed.

We should understand that AI's cost to humanly will never be equaled by its benefits. Thousands of people have lost their jobs, their livelihoods, and their insurance. Many people have had their personal an intellectual property stolen. Still more of us will have problems affording a computer for any reason. Each day, we lose time when surfing because AI has hit servers to scrape everything and needed them to protect themselves. Ultimately, billionaires are have been given a license to pollute humanity's brainshare.

I have a 50" Samsung 4k 120hz "Smart" TV. Given its size, the TV specs are still competent, but the software is no longer updated, and so, the software is useless for many services. The answer for Smart TV's is just to hook them up to a Linux Box.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

I would not be proud to know that that many bugs exist in my code.

Want better evening pix? Use something with a sensor larger than pencil eraser.

What miracle could AI possibly do to offset the human toll of nearly all the world's money being sent to only a few dozen people?

Obviously, connect the dots. : )

If there is an accident, Google could not afford to clean it up. It would seem that google could not afford the decommission.
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While google has never wanted you on 280, so they can get to work fast, when the 101 Express for Money opened, Google would not navigate around it to save it's life. Who wants to drive on 101?

Try to drive to south to Los Gatos center on city streets--while in car mode. They we have you backtracking for miles--just to make sure you are on the highway. Also, try navigating on Rainbow Drive in Santa Clara.

Google has told me to take a right hand turn, drive miles, make a U-turn, come back to the beginning, make another right--to continue driving. What!!