One point that I tend to believe is true, but that I don’t see raised much: The straightforward argument (machines that are smarter than us might try to take over) is intuitively clear to many people, but for whatever reason many people have developed memetic anti-genes against it. (E.g. talk about the AI bubble, AI risk is all sci-fi, technological progress is good, we just won’t program it that way, etc.).
In my personal experience, the people I talk to with a relatively basic education and who are not terminally online are much more intuitively concerned about AI than either academics or people in tech, since they haven’t absorbed so much of the bad discourse.
(The other big reason for people not taking the issue is people not feeling the AGI, but there’s been less of that recently)
One point that I tend to believe is true, but that I don’t see raised much:
The straightforward argument (machines that are smarter than us might try to take over) is intuitively clear to many people, but for whatever reason many people have developed memetic anti-genes against it. (E.g. talk about the AI bubble, AI risk is all sci-fi, technological progress is good, we just won’t program it that way, etc.).
In my personal experience, the people I talk to with a relatively basic education and who are not terminally online are much more intuitively concerned about AI than either academics or people in tech, since they haven’t absorbed so much of the bad discourse.
(The other big reason for people not taking the issue is people not feeling the AGI, but there’s been less of that recently)
Yeah I believe this too. Possibly one of the relatively few examples of the midwit meme being true in real life.