Not sure how I ended up in here, Guerin, but I’ll add my tuppence. Before answering, surely we need some better understanding of how this happened? I am not talking about anything complicated here… physically, these systems sit on computers and output text/images/etc. “Replicating oneself” must mean… buying or building a new computer, powering bit up, then transferring data across. Did the llm first develop hands, or maybe it commandeered some cloud computing? Yes - the dangers seem highly likely to come to pass. But I cannot see anyone stopping development… like an arms race, laws won’t stop it. Laws will only drive research into military and underground initiatives.