Seems like a stretch to compare these two issues. • There was a near-universal consensus on the potential harm of CFCs. No such consensus exists anywhere in your state, country or planet regarding AI. • There was a recognized shared harm in the degradation of the ozone layer, and a clear path to mitigating that harm. With AI, there is almost the opposite. The dynamic that seems to be tacitly or even loudly understood is that the first company or nation to develop general AI will gain a hard-to-exaggerate advantage over the other players. That's a massive incentive to barrel ahead full speed.
Seems like a stretch to compare these two issues.
• There was a near-universal consensus on the potential harm of CFCs. No such consensus exists anywhere in your state, country or planet regarding AI.
• There was a recognized shared harm in the degradation of the ozone layer, and a clear path to mitigating that harm. With AI, there is almost the opposite. The dynamic that seems to be tacitly or even loudly understood is that the first company or nation to develop general AI will gain a hard-to-exaggerate advantage over the other players. That's a massive incentive to barrel ahead full speed.