"You may notice [the media's] primary focus is always on [AI]'s inevitability, not its present utility," says Grabinski. "They want you to swallow a pill before they've decided what goes in the capsule."

The AI industry oscillates between fear-mongering and utopianism. In that dichotomy is hidden a subtle manipulation. Where’s the middle ground? Where are the headlines that treat AI as normal technology? Is it not possible that the world will mostly stay the same, with a few perks or a few downsides, and a few trade-offs?

No, they jump from “AI will... See more

Hipster skepticism won’t help us understand AI’s potential or its risk

Coming from the left, the mood affiliation usually takes the form: “Tech bros think AI is cool, and tech bros are bad — therefore, AI is overhyped.” AI is often compared to crypto, a technology that’s least an order of magnitude less important. And in their hipster-esque... See more