Watching the anti-AI crowd get played and manipulated over the past year or so has been really sad. It reminds me a lot of the early days of the anti-GMO movement when legitimate criticisms and efforts at regulation were supplanted by fear mongering and the whole thing got transformed into more of cult or a kind of subcultural identity. You can see the same pattern playing out where they increasingly are sprouting disproven nonsense, actual substantive criticism is left behind for whatever sounds scariest and/or makes them feel righteous. They are on the path to discredit themselves and lose the fight for AI regulations just as badly as the anti-GMO movement lost.
Yeah, it’s similar to nuclear energy as well. For both, I’m not so much “pro-X” so much as I’m “anti-anti-X”. Renewable energy seems to have finally outpaced other options, but we also wasted decades fighting against people that meant well but helped destroy the environment. Likewise, simply rejecting AI completely just leaves more opportunity for unethical people just trying to make a buck.
Watching the anti-AI crowd get played and manipulated over the past year or so has been really sad. It reminds me a lot of the early days of the anti-GMO movement when legitimate criticisms and efforts at regulation were supplanted by fear mongering and the whole thing got transformed into more of cult or a kind of subcultural identity. You can see the same pattern playing out where they increasingly are sprouting disproven nonsense, actual substantive criticism is left behind for whatever sounds scariest and/or makes them feel righteous. They are on the path to discredit themselves and lose the fight for AI regulations just as badly as the anti-GMO movement lost.
Yeah, it’s similar to nuclear energy as well. For both, I’m not so much “pro-X” so much as I’m “anti-anti-X”. Renewable energy seems to have finally outpaced other options, but we also wasted decades fighting against people that meant well but helped destroy the environment. Likewise, simply rejecting AI completely just leaves more opportunity for unethical people just trying to make a buck.