Just kill it. Enough with this playing with fire. Can we not get along without it?
Nawwwww eat the apple and get digitized.
Witness the end of liberty, right, and freedom endowed upon us by our creator first hand.
Support China, the UN and euro weenies!
That's the problem with ideas and/or knowledge. Like fire (as you mention) or Eden's apple (as HH says), you can't kill it. If the U.S. tried to kill it, China would develop it to overpower the U.S.
What has been seen (or discovered) cannot be unseen.
In a way, this is the Garden of Eden all over again. And if it's dangerous enough for Musk and thousands of tech leaders to want to pause for 6 months to try to get a grip on it (the idea of which is desperately ridiculous), we can be sure this is a genuine threat to humanity.
On the bright side, those of us who believe in the Bible realize we have hit a dead end for humanity and the only thing left is action by God. So we're lucky, I guess, in that we're about to witness the last 10 minutes of the human Superbowl.
It would be like King Canute trying to hold back the rising tide.