This post inspired me to reread Krauthammer's 1997 warning about AI. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/be-afraid-9802
I'm all for looking at the downsides of this technology, which I think are considerable. I've done some of that myself recently at https://www.splicetoday.com/digital/reality-and-hype-in-the-2020s
But ov…
But overall, I think the "we are forked" attitude is overblown. It undervalues humanity's capacity to adapt to new technologies, overlooks positive uses of the technologies, presents what I think is a simplistic vision of the human mind as easily replicated, and exemplifies an alarmist tendency in neoconservatism, where everything is Munich, everything is HAL, everything is doomed.
This post inspired me to reread Krauthammer's 1997 warning about AI. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/be-afraid-9802
I'm all for looking at the downsides of this technology, which I think are considerable. I've done some of that myself recently at https://www.splicetoday.com/digital/reality-and-hype-in-the-2020s
But overall, I think the "we are forked" attitude is overblown. It undervalues humanity's capacity to adapt to new technologies, overlooks positive uses of the technologies, presents what I think is a simplistic vision of the human mind as easily replicated, and exemplifies an alarmist tendency in neoconservatism, where everything is Munich, everything is HAL, everything is doomed.