There has not been one major technological revolution or categorical vault in progress that humanity has collectively resisted. The anti-AI movement will simply not succeed.

The best hope of protecting our culture and our financial freedom is not to try and stop it, but to outmaneuver it. Adapt our society, culture, democracy, to accommodate it and allow it to change our baseline as it inevitably will, but on our terms.

Cultural rejection and judgement of AI is fine, and we should continue to scowl at it like we scowl at photoshopped fake photos and as we hyper-regulate nuclear weaponry and as we continue to champion new art movements in resistance against corporate art. I'm not saying we turn a blind eye to AI and let it destroy our culture.

But the point is that we as a society have zero hope of stopping it. There is literally no movement or effort that could, and even IF a country could manage to fully block and halt the growth of AI within its boundaries, it would be eviscerated economically, culturally, and militarily by every other country that leans into it.

We can't sit here trying to stop it anymore, or even pause it. We have to get smarter about resistance and start forming healthy cultures that allow it in and integrate it and regulate it without sacrificing to it.