Thanks for your reply! I like your compressed version. That feels to me like it would land on a fair number of people. I like to think about trying to explain these concepts to my parents. My dad is a healthcare professional, very competent with machines, can do math, can fix a computer. If I told him superintelligent AI would make nanomachine weapons, he would glaze over. But I think he could imagine having our missile systems taken over by a “next-generation virus.”
My mom has no technical background or interests, so she represents my harder test. If I read her that paragraph she’d have no emotional reaction or lasting memory of the content. I worry that many of the people who are the most important to convince fall into this category.
Thanks for your reply! I like your compressed version. That feels to me like it would land on a fair number of people. I like to think about trying to explain these concepts to my parents. My dad is a healthcare professional, very competent with machines, can do math, can fix a computer. If I told him superintelligent AI would make nanomachine weapons, he would glaze over. But I think he could imagine having our missile systems taken over by a “next-generation virus.”
My mom has no technical background or interests, so she represents my harder test. If I read her that paragraph she’d have no emotional reaction or lasting memory of the content. I worry that many of the people who are the most important to convince fall into this category.