You need to breath and keep thinking. You havent reached the conclusion yet, you just got excited and thought you reached the conclusion. But conclusions are illusory, history never stops turning.

AI can and likely will become an open use consumer system. That doesnt mean that the elite class cannot monopolise its use.

My favourite historical analogue is grain milling. Technology spreads fast and by the medieval ages in Europe any peasant community with access to flowing water could make their own water mill to get flour. However, across much of Europe it was illegal to mill your own grain. You had to take it to the landowners mill, who would then charge you for its use.

AI of course is not exactly a grain mill. But advanced AI will eventually be able to be treated as means of (intellectual) production. And elites will always mobilise to monopolise these means, whatever means necessary.

Eventually using an AI without going through a middle man will be illegal and you will only be able to use it for sanctioned purposes. Criminals will use AI regardless until eventually terrorists figure out how to use it to hurt people. Then the state will justify using violence to crack down on AI use, for example drone striking places where illegal AIs or data centres are hosted. All speculation of course.

ok but do you think that, semantically, an AI can know stuff or only "know" stuff.

Its not a bootstrap problem. You just start at the Moon :P

We shouldnt anthropomorphise but people trying to monopolise the word "know" is ridiculous.... obviously it is not abstracting and visualising the individual concepts and stringing them together with language... but it knows that language object A and language object B are linked and it learned that by scanning its environment, the data it was given for training.

Saying that is sufficiently different from a person learning a word by, you guessed it, scanning the environment for links, that you cannot use the word "know" is pedantic and so stupid.

I imagine the time factor is actually the main factor vs the moon.

Temperature difference: only work during the night. Or the day, which ever's easiest.
Moon dust: a constant electric charge to create static.

These things are technical issues. Very difficult ones. But the last few hundred years hint that if you take some egg heads and throw money and give them time, they will probably figure it out. Now give them supercomputers and nanomaterials as well.

The real problem, time and time again, has been working with the constraints that our governments, economies and cultures limit us with when it comes to distributing energy for problem solving.

its going to be magnitudes cheaper with moon industry

If they keep easy to recycle materials and structure, lifespan might not be an issue.
Might even motivate companies to close their product life cycle and build recyling plants.

What about synchronising two peoples minds. Easier than doubling someones brain mass.

if aromantic the pathways for the feelings of "romance" could still be found and stimulated or even, simulated.

mining cobalt?