Re: the Insanity of Genius being in the Alien Nature of Future Troubles?
Yeah, I don't think 'They've already proliferated', 'are a fait accompli', 'Que sera, sera', or 'resistance is futile', but to each their own ...
The Artificial SuperHuman Counterintelligence software is not even near half-baked as of yet, more like 1/1000ᵗʰ, and let's not mention the requisite multi-GigaWatt datacenters, 3-times the size of Manhattan Island and such, and their mostly ghost hardware (anyways), that can't be powered-up for nuthin' ATM, neither of which are anywhere to be seen at the promoted scales except on imaginative 'artist' renditions (thankfully).
It's a circular money-funneling clown-show alright, and could use some right Glass-Steagall-Act-equivalent irrational-exhuberance-risk controls to be sure. But it also needs Non-Proliferation controls before it forcibly invades everyone's pants and sets them on fire. It cannot be left to becoming both the ends and the means of its own positive feedback loop to some catastrophic endgame where 24/7/365 multinational blackmail is job #1 (instead of quality), along with ever-increasing mass surveillance and automated oppression, imho.