> Ok but I don't have a lot of faith that it will ever be turned back without violence because there are vested interests in keeping everyone swimming in it.

I'm not sure if we're talking about the same thing.

I think an acceptable good-but-not-perfect outcome it one where the "sea" (AI) stinks so bad that enough people get out that there's a viable life outside of it. The thing is people, individually and in aggregate, are lazy and competitive, so self-discipline isn't sufficient to sustain that life. There need to be problems that push people in that direction.

The web is foundational to AI, so that's a place where it's vulnerable.

We invented the democratic process precisely to mitigate such violence. Get enough people pissed off and no amount of “vested interests” will impede severe regulation.