I think the tech companies—and in particular the AGI companies—are already too powerful for such an informal public backlash to slow them down significantly.
Disagree. Almost every successful moral campaign in history started out as an informal public backlash against some evil or danger.
The AGI companies involve a few thousand people versus 8 billion, a few tens of billions of funding versus 360 trillion total global assets, and about 3 key nation-states (US, UK, China) versus 195 nation-states in the world.
Compared to actually powerful industries, AGI companies are very small potatoes. Very few people would miss them if they were set on ‘pause’.
I think the tech companies—and in particular the AGI companies—are already too powerful for such an informal public backlash to slow them down significantly.
Disagree. Almost every successful moral campaign in history started out as an informal public backlash against some evil or danger.
The AGI companies involve a few thousand people versus 8 billion, a few tens of billions of funding versus 360 trillion total global assets, and about 3 key nation-states (US, UK, China) versus 195 nation-states in the world.
Compared to actually powerful industries, AGI companies are very small potatoes. Very few people would miss them if they were set on ‘pause’.
I hope you are right.
I imagine it going hand in hand with more formal backlashes (i.e. regulation, law, treaties).