What Sam is not saying yet is: There is a solution here which is to use coding agents to replace all the bad code (i.e. essentially all code) with code that is formally verified to have safety properties. This is a huge and difficult undertaking yet the same non-AGI-yet-superpowerful AI tech that is doing all the hacking is capable to enable this. If government wants to do something valuable to smooth the path to the Singularity, one helpful step would be to allocate a trillion dollars (oh maybe just try $500B for starters?) to open-source communities to roll out software for automatically replacing badly buggy code (again almost all code) w appropriately formally verifiable code... Gov't can find trillions of $$ to bail out "too big to fail" companies in crisis -- it did it for the banks in 2008 and will do it for Big Tech if the circular financing causes a tech-industry financial collapse in late 2027/2028 ... it can find massive $$ for wars... but finding hundreds of billions of $$ to end world hunger or give the world a solid software foundation is somehow utterly infeasible... We are not even to the stage of human-level AGI yet but we are already meeting fascinatingly and disturbingly unprecedented situations as modern AI tech meets legacy society and legacy IT systems. It's just going to get crazier, before ultimately -- if all goes well -- getting gloriously abundant for all... We need some "out of the box" thinking across all levels of society to get through this transitional phase with a modicum of grace amidst all the chaos...