I'm less worried about theft of IP, and more worried about the energy cost for current AI systems. We're burning massive amounts of power for the current AI wave, and it is not all renewable.
I do think AI has a reasonable future, but we are not being reasonable about it today. I wish we could just punt it downhill for a decade, focus on getting our energy production to 100% renewables worldwide, let AI advance at a research-only level during that time, and commercialize it in 2035+, using whatever spare energy we have at that time.
Then we'd skip the power and money-based drive to get AI in everything today despite its poor quality and efficiencies.
I do think AI has a reasonable future, but we are not being reasonable about it today. I wish we could just punt it downhill for a decade, focus on getting our energy production to 100% renewables worldwide, let AI advance at a research-only level during that time, and commercialize it in 2035+, using whatever spare energy we have at that time.
Then we'd skip the power and money-based drive to get AI in everything today despite its poor quality and efficiencies.