In the US a driver's license has very little to do with being able to drive a car. It has to do with being able to obey traffic signs. Operating the machine is something you learn on your own time. With one key exception, a motorcycle license is completely different than more rigorous than a US driver's license. US motorcycle licenses are perhaps closer to the deeper requirements that Europeans expect from a driving test. Because our car driving licenses are a joke, anyone can get one if they can pass the vision test.

All cars were train cars, and the highways were 6 track corridors.

I love hiking. I love the feeling of using all four limbs to control my locomotion. The main disadvantage is that it takes a long time and impractical to carry my groceries for several miles without melting the icecream.

I think the numbers are reasonable for people over 40 or 50. But for under 30, the number of people who know how to drive a stick must be really low. Given how rare stickshifts have been on the new car lots in the past 20 years, at least when I tried to buy a car the last few times my options were limited when it came to manual transmission. Dealers rarely had them or had the previous year model because it didn't sell.

Controlled burns when it isn't crispy or windy is how it is done already in the US and Canada. A toy robot is not going to get far in the back country terrain, and solar power is not going to drive a hypothetical mulcher.

A robot cannot legally consent.

Well I'm not going to sleep very well tonight after seeing that monstrosity.
I even involuntarily thought about where I keep my shotgun (mossy) and shells just in case this thing goes on a rampage.

Sure. do whatever you were told to do. At one company (+15 years ago) I gave the nasty letters Amazon sent me to the HR director. She basically told me it was garbage and I could have thrown it in the trash, but she'll file them and to tell her if I get any more.
At my last two companies, I'm supposed to send everything onto the legal department. That's subtly different than talking with an attorney, at best my email is filtered through a paralegal. Again, different companies have different policies.

And that would be wrongful termination by Open AI. And it could potentially violate a legal order. And it could be spoliation of evidence. So potentially multi ways to amplify one's legal liability. So no, nobody is going to get fired for following the legal notice.

Generally, the best thing to do is bring those notices to your employer's legal team. And let them deal with it. Get the company to own all decisions and avoid taking on the company's liability as your own.

Retention policy for IT departments in the corporate world is that no, you don't keep backups unless you receive a legal notice.

That would be true for a totalitarian government, where if you give up your rights it belongs to the government, and citizens are little more than government property.

A democratically elected government that is answerable to its people on the other hand. You don't give it rights, you give it permission, because such a government needs the consent of the people in order to function or even exist.

Maybe don't collect data on a billion people of it cannot be done without violating people's privacy.

That's not an argument.

"Yeah, that guy is dead now. We have a pretty solid idea who did it. But not sure if that'll make him alive again, so let's not bother with catching them."

For hundreds of years, conservative is the label given to the political wing that desires maintaining social and political and economic hierarchies. It is a faction label given in the past to those who supports monarchy.

I effectively don't have the same level of free speech as the members of the board of directors at iHeartMedia. So I am not terribly sympathetic yhat corporate entities have to operate under restrictions and regulation. They still enjoy a power that us individuals cannot obtain.