It harms our credibility in ways that can make it harder to mitigate present-day harms from NLP deployments. It also limits our ability to prepare for the potentially enormous impacts of more distant future advances.
I tried to stick to ‘present-day’ over ‘short-term’, but missed this old bit of draft text in the abstract.
Thanks! Tentative rewrite for the next revision:
I tried to stick to ‘present-day’ over ‘short-term’, but missed this old bit of draft text in the abstract.