> AI investment will crash but AI itself (the technology) will continue thriving, learning, improving and there is absolutely no way to stop it.

No, there's is a way to stop it. As obvious counterexample: go all Butlerian Jihad: death sentence for anyone caught "making a machine in the likeness of a human mind." It's doable with a few laws and treaties. I'm not saying that's the only way it could be stopped, it's just a way it could.

I'm fucking sick of TINA, especially with arguments from vigorous assertion.