Very well put and I think that covers pretty much everything that needs to be said here.

In fact it has been AI people who have been leading discussions around AI ethics and the dangers of AI since 1955. This is not new and it is consistent.

The new thing is that the average person is now entering into the debate around AI; And like pretty much everything else in the public sphere doing it with entirely no context.

I always love when some total novice encounters a problem in a well studied field as though they’re the first one to encounter it. There’s nothing more narcissistic than some person thinking they are unique in their position with absolutely no demonstration of having done their homework on whether or not this is an established topic in an established field.

That’s where I place 99.9999% of people who are opening their mouth on this topic.

Most of the builders don’t care about this mess and are continuing to work like usual.

> Most of the builders don’t care about this mess and are continuing to work like usual.

So they don't consider it an existential threat, unlike what the CEOs of companies raising hundreds of billions are saying.