You're asserting correctness with no facts to offer of your own, just speculation and your own biased assumptions.
What if consolidating AI into a highly regulated cartel, with no chance of upstart competition ruining their position, is the scenario that leads to the worst possible outcome?
Worse than extinction?
Is it really hard for you to imagine that enshrining a cartel and wedding the government to it, centralizing AI even more than it already is, is actually the path that leads to the doomsday scenario you imagine?
There are worse fates than extinction, for example living forever, for I have no mouth and I must scream
I dunno, being a Culture Mind sounds pretty damn good. Or even just a death-optional citizen in the Culture.
The Culture isn’t perfect but it seems like the best possible outcome. I think I’d want to be a fast picket and hang out with Special Circumstances.
Agreed. Ellison’s path to that future went through AI.