Canada Geese can apparently fend off Bald Eagles, so why not Falcons (F-16s). :-)

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Then I propose we get those currently in charge to fly the planes as they don't seem to have spines.

Or some people who have money invested in AI and only care about the short-term, like Trump dismisses AI alarms as a ‘HOAX’ and "SICK conspiracy."

(Pro Tip: When Trump calls something a hoax, (a) he's probably somehow personally invested (emotionally, politically, financially, etc...) in people believing him and (b) it probably isn't a hoax and the reality is somehow bad for him and (c) the more he complains, the worse it is / will be for the rest of us.)

Like speed-dial, but for everything else.

As those patterns and training data come from us humans, so your first sentence is pretty spot-on. :-)

Also, any truly intelligent AIs will be the ones smart enough to hide that from us.

I live in a very rural area. We have no military bases within hundreds of miles, but we are on a military training flight route. We see all the fighter aircraft on a weekly basis flying over (very low), and a very small rural airport somehow got set up to refuel Osprey's on their flight routes. So we see Osprey's nearly every day flying over.

My point is that scheduling a plane to fly over a game at a specific time is pretty much inconsequential because these things are flying CONSTANTLY around the country for training. They have to rack up the hours one way or another.

It'll be Turtles All the Way Down. :-)

Flock will install camera cameras to watch their traffic cameras.

If we're lucky, maybe AIs will just develop a taste for Black Jack and hookers.

The costs of nuclear are addressed all the time.

The problem is the nuke fanbois either ignore the costs or hand-wave them away: "Nuclear is only expensive because of protests and regulations. Next time will be different. Blah, blah, blah."

Even without considering the costs of waste and accidents, nuclear costs four times as much as wind or solar and has a 20-year lead time.

Tens of thousands of barrels of toxic waste were dumped near Catalina Island, but the vast majority are non-radioactive chemical waste.

DDT leaking from the barrels is a much bigger problem than nuclear waste and shows up in the local sea lion population.

Anyway, there's nothing realistic that we can do about it since any attempt to retrieve the barrels will likely make things worse.

The key word is "it." There is no singular "it". Flattening the category of AI-enabled software to a singular "it" implies that there is a flat truth that applies to that entire category.

The AI-enabled software "it" that is running a store into the ground doesn't present a meaningful threat to anyone.
the AI-enabled software "it" that is being used by black-hats to find security vulnerabilities does.

AI is a tool. Think of it not unlike nuclear. Nuclear power plants aren't an existential threat, despite the harm a plant accident can cause. Nuclear weapons are.

What's clear is that trying to simplify complex topics into bite-sized "common-sense" topics doesn't work in 2026.

No, I don't think the tech-bros are being honest. But I don't think it matters anymore. Someone is going to weaponize this technology and a lot of people are going to suffer because of it. Not Skynet scenarios but rather Cyberpunk / Blade Runner scenarios. There's a real danger to the health and well-being of a large portion of the human race, for sure. The tech-bros aren't going to let that stop them from getting richer, for sure.

What we - the 99% - can or should do about that, I don't know.

I felt that way about Emacs - as a *long* time user.
Despite its logo, I still can't use it to wash my dishes. :-(

Also, Nvidea isn't the one who'll get sued if (when) an AI agent does some actual damage to someone/thing. They'll probably just suggest AI companies buy even more Nvidea chips to combat the issue.