They want to be recognized as sentient and indigenous so they can hire pro bono lawyers and sue the ground dwellers for polluting their nation and stealing all the best food.

How many more assumptions are out there waiting to be retested and found to be wrong? I suspect that quite a few scientists could make a career of testing assumptions and make great progress on a number of long standing medical issues. Actually, this doesn't just apply to medicine, it applies to any assumption ever made. Those old founders of science had a lot of hubris that no one has challenged for many decades.

You pay people less, then they can not afford to buy products. Corporations have been destroying their own markets for decades and now it is affecting their bottom line.

Workers can use AI on their own to automate their own jobs and give themselves more time. They can use that time to get more jobs which they can then also automate. Soon it may be common to have ten jobs, mostly handled by your own AI. Then working for any one company matters less, people may quit some jobs if they feel like going on vacation. The AI sword cuts both ways, workers can also use it to automate their work too. As AI improves use your personal AI to start a company run by the AI. No more bosses.

Accepts remote commands, controls all apps, reports everything to a centralized server.

If these CEOs are bailing because they see problems ahead then divesting from their companies would seem to be a winning strategy.

Texas is leading the country in renewables, will Trump cancel all their new projects and turn off their already built projects?

It imposes pain on millions of people to make the integrators life easier. Even CVS was better for the masses. How many times has git screwed things up for you when all you wanted was to check in your code so it was backed up? It needs to separate backup functions (making them simple) and code merge/integration functions. In fact, code merge/integration could use new and better tools itself. Just like CAD tools, programming tools are woefully primitive.

Under the guise of a "useful" AI agent, IMHO, they are getting you to train their agent by watching everything you do, which they can then sell or use to manipulate you. This is the current model of the internet. Soon they will have agents trained by CEO's, politicians, police, engineers, everyone.

Any country can make a breakthrough in any area which then gives them an advantage. It is often not even a linear path to develop a field, it only depends on who comes up with new ideas. Some things like making integrated circuits are hard to master without proprietary knowledge, but an entirely new method of making integrated circuits could be invented and bypass the current chip fabs leads. The idea that science is a race is stupid, it is much more like exploring an unknown forest and you can not keep any country out of the forest.

Your personal AI agent will know everything you do and use it all against you.

Everyone being "worth 40% less" means money is worth 40% less. Labor is the root of all money. Assets are worth nothing without labor. AI needs massive data from people to train on so you can't replace labor with AI.

"which has long prided itself on its reputation for releasing groundbreaking papers and as a home for the best scientists building AI"

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Not any more.

Have you noticed that economic arguments can be warped to support any viewpoint? This is intentional, the language of economics has been intentionally obfuscated. Economics is not a science, it's a bunch of anecdotes and rules of thumb (called models) and opinions by hired experts to influence markets. Fink needs to include citations and a logic chain for his declarations about something that has never happened before, before anyone can believe his prognostications, in my opinion.

Your fridge will walk around the house handing out food, snacks, and drinks. You will never see the inside of the fridge. It will walk outside to a truck to get refills. It will pester you with requests to ask it to be filled with new products. Soon after that we will have flying refrigerators.