The real danger isn’t people using AI. It’s people pretending we have 10 leisurely years to debate whether it should exist.

If lawmakers had waited that long to address Facebook, the consequences would have made 2016 look like a warm-up.

The conversation that matters now isn’t “should AI exist.” It already does, at planetary scale. The conversation is what happens next. Who owns the models. Who gets compensated. What consent looks like. How environmental cost is regulated. What labour protections are created. How we prevent a handful of corporations from bottling the future.

Personal boycotts can be morally meaningful, but they are not a governance strategy. They don’t fix scraping, copyright, inequality, or emissions. Policy does. Collective action does. Public pressure does. Democratic oversight does.

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