[bigyabai]

It's too late. An "AI winter" won't protect you from AI used in military deployment, or set-back the agentic coding that is causing job churn. Pressing the button would just come with a different set of AI-related consequences.

Slowed progress would almost exclusively and disproportionately reward privately-owned AI services. Without downward competitive pressure, the AI market would ossify against public interest and exacerbate the disinformation crisis by making it more subtle.