Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-10-09
Form Type: DFAN14A
Source: 0001213900-25-097833
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Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-10-09
Form: DFAN14A
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Exhibit 2

AI Insurance Is Expensive

P(doom), STAAR Surgical projections, Bitcoin life
insurance and YouTube self-help.

October 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM EDT

By Matt Levine

AI insurance

One question you might ask is: Will modern artificial
intelligence models go rogue and enslave or wipe out humanity? That question gets a lot of attention, including from people who run big
AI labs, who do not always answer “no,” the rascals.

Another question you might ask is: If modern AI
models do go rogue and enslave or wipe out humanity, who will pay for that? This is perhaps not quite a well-formed question. If AI wipes
out humanity, there will be no humans left to sue, so nobody will pay for that. If AI enslaves humanity, presumably nobody will be allowed
to sue, so nobody will pay. “It may be difficult to know what role money will play in a post-[artificial general intelligence] world,”
says OpenAI, the rascals.

But for now, in the US in 2025, the natural response
to any bad thing that happens is a lawsuit, so the natural question about the potential bad consequences of anything is “who
will pay if we get sued?” There is something annoying about that, but also something nice. The modern United States has built a
broadly (not perfectly) effective system for internalizing externalities. If you do something that makes money for you
but harms someone else, you’re gonna get sued. If you do something that makes money for you but has