The alarmism around AI is just a marketing spin.
As @[email protected] wrote: that’s “mystical nonsense about spontaneous consciousness arising from applied statistics”.
Real problems we face with AI are:
Ghost labor, erosion of the rights of artists, costs of automation, the climate impact of data-centers and the human impact of biased, opaque, incompetent and unfit algorithmic systems.
“AI is whatever hasn’t been done yet.”
Decade number seven.