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Comment by steelkilt

3 hours ago

If I were an adversary of the U.S. I would encourage anti-AI sentiment among young people, to my strategic advantage.

They don't need much help, the industry's incentives are not aligned with the public interest.

  • Disruption, by definition, has winners and losers and the losers tend to be more visible, more vocal, and more immediate than the winners.

    • Who do you imagine the winners and losers will be? To the extent AI is useful and disruptive, it's best utilized by people with capital. Which is to say, the winners are few and the losers are everybody else. In this case, the losers aren't just more vocal, they're louder and more visible because they're much more numerous.

That assumes that there is benefit to be had in all this AI craze. So far, none has yet materialized.