Very intriguing. I’m almost at that point too — despite having worked in AI on and off since 1985. My one remaining skepticism is whether AI as-is is a manifestation of late modernization and, therefore, is it the right target? I’m not yet sure destroying it is attacking the symptom not the cause.
I’ve been trying to articulate this more over the past few days, and I’m coming to the idea that maybe the underlying problem is a feudal style of intellectual property rights modelled on land rights, which essentially promotes monopolization. Maybe it’s monopolization we need to break.