I loved the link to the “Resisted Technological Temptations Project”, for a bunch of examples of resisted/slowed technologies that are not “eating sand”, and have an enormous upside: https://wiki.aiimpacts.org/doku.php?id=responses_to_ai:technological_inevitability:incentivized_technologies_not_pursued:start
GMOs, in some countries
Nuclear power, in some countries
Genetic engineering of humans
Geoengineering, many actors
Chlorofluorocarbons, many actors, 1985-present
Human challenge trials
Dietary restrictions, in most (all?) human cultures [restrict much more than sand, often quite good stuff!]
I would tentatively add:
organ donor markets (at least for kidneys)
drug development in general (see all of Scott’s posts on the FDA slowing things down, I would love to see an AIA slowing things down)
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I loved the link to the “Resisted Technological Temptations Project”, for a bunch of examples of resisted/slowed technologies that are not “eating sand”, and have an enormous upside: https://wiki.aiimpacts.org/doku.php?id=responses_to_ai:technological_inevitability:incentivized_technologies_not_pursued:start
GMOs, in some countries
Nuclear power, in some countries
Genetic engineering of humans
Geoengineering, many actors
Chlorofluorocarbons, many actors, 1985-present
Human challenge trials
Dietary restrictions, in most (all?) human cultures [restrict much more than sand, often quite good stuff!]
I would tentatively add:
organ donor markets (at least for kidneys)
drug development in general (see all of Scott’s posts on the FDA slowing things down, I would love to see an AIA slowing things down)