Is a strictly enforced economic sanction better than an all out regime change invasion/occupation of another sovereign country that costs the lives of millions... we'll have to get back to you on that one.
Considering the sort of driving issues and code violations I see on a daily basis, the standards for human drivers need raising. The issue is more lax humans than it is amazing robots.
Well that's the neat thing, the owners of the AI won't need humanity. They will exterminate us using the AI and sit smugly on their thrones of skulls until they expire or kill each other. Then I guess AI can just do its own thing in our ruins.
"I bought a very expensive piece of shit, and everyone else thinks it's a piece of a shit, but when I try to convince them that it's not a piece of shit... it ends up doing piece of shit things. I just don't get it."
True or not, you couldn't really find a more complimentary president/business leader for Putin's Russia than Trump. He will bend over backwards to protect and extend that relationship no matter what.
Because a military operated solely by loyal incompetents has worked out so well for Russia.