too much is made about the specific people selling machine intelligence or any specific pr strategy. the idea that the world is fundamentally changing is a tough sell no matter what. there will be a moral outcry, and a generation later today’s ai will be normal

of course this technological disequilibrium probably doesn’t just settle, it creates 10 new disequilibria even if ai progress pauses tomorrow. there is much time yet and today’s villains will get recast as heroes then villains again then heroes as the psychohistory flows

@jbraunstein914 there are also a classes of threats specifically for key decision makers in artificial intelligence