Don’t we have a roadmap for this already?
Internet, steam engine, printing press etc etc. new tech changes things. People resist, the new generation embraces it. The world is forever changed by the microwave.
5-10 years seems like the exact right timeframe for the articles about how X new thing is actually bad / dangerous.
I'm not sure past technological epochs can be held up on an apples-to-apples basis, here.
This time it is different 😁
I think information technology and AI really is different than the steam engine, in terms of its cultural and social purchase.
I am sympathetic to the arguments that these things will not necessarily cause mass-unemployment, and will instead push us up the productivity curve. But that's not my core worry. My core worry is how these things interact with human nature in a fundamental way.
There's already evidence that social media has increased political polarization and radicalization on two ends of the spectrum. Nobody predicted the incentives would play out that way. In fact, there was quite a bit of optimism in the late oughts that these technologies would be emancipatory, lead to higher-brow conversations, and create a universal truth layer.
The fact we are even here, trying to redesign these interactions from the ground up, is testament to that.
