I am all for the AI debate, but it being the first time technologists that are already in their 50s or older and/or billionaires or with vast generational wealth is something I find monumentally suspicious.

- Big tech monopolizing the models, data, and hardware: that's going to happen because "we" already let them monopolize everything else

- Copyright concerns: like when streaming services started? oh ok only that now it's not only musicians but celebrity faces? yeah sorry about that.

- Job security: for whom? and of course cheap PCs, smartphones, search engines, social media, didn't move the job security floor for anyone? What about WFH?

- AIs becoming sentient and causing harm for their own ends: yeah I guess we only want humans to cause harm for their own ends then.

- Corporations intentionally using AI to cause harm for their own ends: because they are not already harmful enough without AI?

- Feedback loops will flood the internet with content of unknown provenance, which get included in the next model, etc: oh no! people will have to _verify_ if what they read on the Internet is real? What a travesty!!! we are doomed!!

- AI hallucinations resulting in widespread persistent errors that cause an epistemological crisis: have you met any academics? are you sure we don't already are dealing with this and AI is not going to make it worse in any possible metric?

- The training set is inherently biased; human knowledge and perspectives not represented in this set could be systematically wiped from public discourse: everything is biased, reality doesn't exist at 0. If you think AI with a different bias would be cool, just go try make it happen. If you get the government involved or start doing all this weird "6 months to think about it" stuff, that will only make private actors that don't abide by the rules have better AI than the rest.