Good post, yours. To which I’d add: AI is making it easier and easier to deliberately misinform the public.
There are a ton of videos on Facebook, etc. that purport to show important events. But many of them are fake. One I recall had Trump speaking at a podium and saying inappropriate things.
Not so inappropriate as to be obvious humor. Just inappropriate enough to question the man’s judgment.
Not so long ago, it was relatively easy to spot such fakes. No longer.
Yes, it is getting easier and easier to create misleading AI created videos on YouTube that appear to be real. That is another negative aspect of the problems with AI. With the $Trillions being spent this along with many, many other bad things are going to get worse and not better.
The boosters try to characterize the current situation as some type of contest between the US and China... The Chinese have spent and are spending less than a 20th of what we do on AI. They are bad actors and no matter what they spend on AI it will likely ultimately be a bad thing, but it is certainly not a justification for us to increase our spending from 20 times what they spend to 40 times what they spend. Chinese culture produces lots of copycats and not as many original thinkers. Who knows where this all will eventually end up, but probably not with Chinese AI taking over the world.