I'm so out of the mainstream thinking for what is "important" political debate. Silly me to think that issues like the impact of accelerating waves of new technology is having on society--like this AI--as among the most important topics we need to have widespread public debate on.
Where would we be today if, in 2010, fours years after tw…
I'm so out of the mainstream thinking for what is "important" political debate. Silly me to think that issues like the impact of accelerating waves of new technology is having on society--like this AI--as among the most important topics we need to have widespread public debate on.
Where would we be today if, in 2010, fours years after twitter was launched, we started talking about the complex and wide range of issues and implications of having a private company owning the public square online? But we didn't have that debate until circumstances forced us to and only AFTER the genie is out of the bottle.
We will indeed be having huge debates on the manipulation of AI code. But we won't have that debate now. We'll wait until the boiling pot is ready to explode.
I'm so out of the mainstream thinking for what is "important" political debate. Silly me to think that issues like the impact of accelerating waves of new technology is having on society--like this AI--as among the most important topics we need to have widespread public debate on.
Where would we be today if, in 2010, fours years after twitter was launched, we started talking about the complex and wide range of issues and implications of having a private company owning the public square online? But we didn't have that debate until circumstances forced us to and only AFTER the genie is out of the bottle.
We will indeed be having huge debates on the manipulation of AI code. But we won't have that debate now. We'll wait until the boiling pot is ready to explode.
Climate change. Asteroid defense. Pandemic preparation. Water shortages.
Humans tend to be really bad at examining issues to come and taking them seriously.