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Just catching up now to an April essay by tech analyst Adam Thierer​ on the “growing AI technopanic.” Good stuff, including this chart on the “panic cycle” curve:

I certainly think we are on the ascent here, whether it’s concerns about technological unemployment or an AI-driven apocalypse. Perhaps proponents haven’t done a good job in telling a plausible, compelling story about how tech progress and automation syncs with human flourishing. Or maybe our risk averse natures makes us particularly resilient to such stories.

Let me quote from a paper Thierer wrote on technopanics: