Google Grapples with ‘Horrifying’ Reaction to Uncanny AI Tech
For a field like AI, it&#x27;s <i>extremely</i> difficult to decide if knee-jerk aversion to specific advancements is something worth taking seriously or not. For a field where the entire <i>point</i> is to replace humans in certain functions, it&#x27;s inevitable that there will be leaps forward that people are extremely uncomfortable with in the short term.<p>This may be an example of something where things need to be altered, or it may not. But in either case it seems short-sighted to just think this question can be resolved in 24 hours after a demo due to a few hastily-written tweets and thrown-together articles. What&#x27;s important is that as AI continues to encroach upon human capabilities that there be a framework for navigating these transitions and knowing where the lines are. Hopefully as this kind of thing becomes more common public opinion will shift from caring about the creepy-demo-of-the-week to a wider scope of how we grapple as a society with these kinds of advancements.<p>Emotional reactions and ad-hoc decisionmaking based on mob rule is going to result in a random, arbitrary outcome which will almost certainly be suboptimal.