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Artificial intelligence has been under development for 70 years. Why, just as it becomes commercially valuable, are we suddenly being told it could extinguish humanity?
The California economy runs on the supply chain of products and transportation fuels made from raw crude oil that is diminishing from refinery closures.
The architects of artificial superintelligence now warn that it could escape control, cripple the internet and even extinguish humanity. So why did they develop it?
The State supports the exodus of the in-state manufacturers of the fuels to foreign refineries, threatening national energy security and global stability.
Allowing foreign-flagged tankers to move transportation fuel from the US Gulf Coast to West Coast Ports is only a band aid for California’s humongous demands for transportation fuels.
