I like this framing; we’re both too early and too late. But it might transition quite rapidly from too early to right on time.
One idea is to prepare strategies and arguments and perhaps prepare the soil of public discourse in preparation for the time when it is no longer too early. Job loss and actually harmful AI shenanigans are very likely before takeover-capable AGI. Preparing for the likely AI scares and negative press might help public opinion shift very rapidly as it sometimes does (e.g., COVID opinions went from no concern to shutting down half the economy very quickly).
The average American and probably the average global citizen already dislikes AI. It’s just the people benefitting from it that currently like it, and that’s a minority.
Whether that’s enough is questionable, but it makes sense to try and hope that the likely backlash is at least useful in slowing progress or proliferation somewhat.
I like this framing; we’re both too early and too late. But it might transition quite rapidly from too early to right on time.
One idea is to prepare strategies and arguments and perhaps prepare the soil of public discourse in preparation for the time when it is no longer too early. Job loss and actually harmful AI shenanigans are very likely before takeover-capable AGI. Preparing for the likely AI scares and negative press might help public opinion shift very rapidly as it sometimes does (e.g., COVID opinions went from no concern to shutting down half the economy very quickly).
The average American and probably the average global citizen already dislikes AI. It’s just the people benefitting from it that currently like it, and that’s a minority.
Whether that’s enough is questionable, but it makes sense to try and hope that the likely backlash is at least useful in slowing progress or proliferation somewhat.