I think you could say this about any problem. Instead of working on malaria prevention, freeing caged chickens or stopping climate change should we just all switch to working on AI so it can solve the problems for us? I don’t think so, because:
a. I think it’s important to hedge bets and try out a range of things in case AI is many decades away or it doesn’t work out
and
b. having lots more people working on AI won’t necessarily make it come faster or better (already lots of people working on it).
I think you could say this about any problem. Instead of working on malaria prevention, freeing caged chickens or stopping climate change should we just all switch to working on AI so it can solve the problems for us?
I don’t think so, because:
a. I think it’s important to hedge bets and try out a range of things in case AI is many decades away or it doesn’t work out
and
b. having lots more people working on AI won’t necessarily make it come faster or better (already lots of people working on it).