is nobody saw this coming.

Just wait until AI is baked into your cell phone, fridge, toaster, microwave, TV, car... oh, wait... it's already there!
Soon, I can see it switching to paid-only... you can't even toast a slice of bread or call your mom unless you pay the $250 AI bill (if it's not just automatically withdrawn from your bank).

Genius... you could just understand the code and write a program.

Oh... wah wah... can't use their ChatGPT.
Maybe your kids can learn how to write their essay by hand.

The more devices it bounces its signal through, the slower it is.
And, if they can't throw a 96-core Threadripper up there , what's the grand plan? If they're only using radiation-hardened gear, they're going to be 15+ years behind the rest of the world forever.

And, using "AI" is your first failure.
If Linux wasn't such a locked-in soapbox (sure, you can run some Windows stuff in WINE or virtual machines... which defeats the purpose of installing Linux).
Sure, there's Libre and stuff, does it 1,000% open literally every single file 100%?

Win10 works fine for me.

Despite someone posting something yesterday or last week, that doesn't automatically mean anything today, especially on just a message board.

Mix one programming language into another whole language.
Awesome!

Well, you're not 'commadore73', but the only way you're lighting water is if you run electrolysis on your tap water.

A cure for cancer (toss a dart at the board).
Look up the movie "Medicine Man".
How do you know the true cure for cancer or anything else is NOT in the Amazon? Sure, maybe the cure you found cures breast cancer Only... I'm fairly sure the BC cure can be reworked to cure all cancers.
But... that depends on whether there are still rainforests.

You're thinking of traffic cameras on stoplights, which also can see license plates.
If you're so worried about a camera seeing your license plate, you might be surprised to know how much data your cell phone shares (read the ToS and EULA completely).

CSI (series) stuff, of course, is really compacted for the show.

Any laws or rules passed for this AI bull-s*** won't be enforceable, because it's not a global law. Who passed it, and who enforces it?

This, 100%.
So, according to this, car thieves aren't stealing cars in areas that have Flocks. And, I bet the thieves are searching the area for Flocks. Great... what about the areas that don't have Flocks?
Hell, you could just throw a shirt or a flannel over the Flock and carry on.

What is your metric for secureness?
You do know that none of the governments of the world are gonna allow some encryption system that renders your IP-related encrypted communications without those governments having the master key.

What privacy?
Now that phone calls and texts and emails and everything else happens online totally, all of it can be listened to, and has been since the 'net became a thing. Not to mention, it's easy to track your location now that everybody has cellphones.