Google's CEO appears to be concerned about the impact of AI:
I think the chief responsibility of all government is to protect citizens from harm and threats to their well-being. But neither governments nor corporations seem to be appropriately concerned about the serious threats posed by AI, including this obvious one:
Every job will be impacted, and most existing jobs will be eliminated. How will people support themselves in an AI-controlled world?
In addition to the actual AI-related threats, we're now forced to deal with claims that government regulation, ANY regulation, "stifles innovation":
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/even-chatgpt-can-figure-out-what-going
This is a rehash of the arguments used to justify the deregulation of most industries in the US, a paradigm which not only enriched the few but gutted existing safeguards which protected consumers and the population in general. How'd THAT work out for you?
And now we're going to let an even more powerful entity decide what's good for us? I say we SHOULD stifle innovation, at least until we understand all of its impacts on those of us who live in the REAL world (i.e., real human beings, not transhuman and/or posthuman beings).
For the vast majority of humanity, promoting "potentially disruptive innovation" is NOT the greatest good. Just the opposite, since it benefits mainly the successful disrupters themselves ... to the detriment of almost everyone else.
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