Nicolas Kayser-Bril on Nostr: I'm trying to reconstruct how the narrative of "AI poses an existential risk, ...

I'm trying to reconstruct how the narrative of "AI poses an existential risk, therefore we mustn't regulate it" came to be.

As far as I can tell, there never was a "New York Plaza" moment (where Big Tobacco bosses decided on their homicidal strategy in 1953).

Instead, a bunch of white dudes who watched The Matrix too much began to develop a faith in the early 2010s (Bostrom's book Superintelligence being their credo). Being a faith, it was impervious to evidence.

The question I still have is how this faith crossed the line from those dudes to journalists and politicians so fast and with so little resistance.

Any ideas?

cc Timnit Gebru (she/her). (npub1z40…s3fq)