Risks and Awareness of AI Technology

I think I felt maybe m- you know, have been a bit disappointed or

felt a bit more negative about some of the things that are

more, like, in the, you know, in the kinda public

awareness and the actions of wider society.

Um, you know, it, it is surprising to me that we are,

you know, in, in, in my view, so close to these models reaching the

level of

human intelligence and, and yet there doesn't seem

to be

a wider recognition in society of what's about to happen.

It's as if this tsunami is coming at us, and, you know, it's so

close. We can see it on the horizon, and yet people are coming up with these

explanations for, "Oh, it's not actually a tsunami.

It's, you know, that, that, you know, that's just a trick of the light." Like

it's

some, you know... And I think along with that,

there hasn't been a public awareness

of the risks, and, you know, therefore governments haven't

acted to, to address the risk. There's even an ideology that, you know,

we

should just try to accelerate as fast as possible, which, you know, I

understand the benefits of the technology.

I wrote Machines of Loving Grace, but I think there hasn't been an

appropriate

realization of the risks of the technology,

and there certainly hasn't been action