> Other than banning the use of AI or severely restricting it so that AI can’t do most things (like tool calls) what is your alternative?

Massive proliferation of local AI as far and wide as possible, with as many different models as possible. The underlying threat comes from centralization: too many points of control in the hands of too concentrated a system.

If everyone's using their own AI tools independently of each other, and people are responsible for the actions they take using AI, most of the doomsday scenarios evaporate.

Regulation and "alignment" will make things worse, not better, and lead us to ignore the inherent vulnerability of centralized systems and single points of failure.