I don't understand these conversations at all. It's universally accepted that we've already innovated ourselves into existential peril with the nuclear bomb, an

I don't understand these conversations at all. It's universally accepted that we've already innovated ourselves into existential peril with the nuclear bomb, and now the internet. Technologists who look back on history can find a lot of ways that technology has threatened us collectively. Human beings need to accept the fact that we've been pretending that technology is just a means towards progress and problem solving. It's actually some kind of Pandora's box that gets progressively more dangerous the more we obsessively screw with it. Not just that, but technology shapes who we are at a fundamental level. The era of AI will 100% change us into something else than we are now. It's absolutely dangerous, we probably can't even envision how that danger will manifest yet, but it's definitely there - and we're not taking it seriously, again. As stupid as this may sound, I see an endless list of technological innovations completely transforming society and causing strange side-effects: - The printing press brought literacy to the world, and destroyed religion in the West. - The radio started mass broadcasting, and multiple genocides. - Nuclear research unlocked a new era in science, and a bomb that's been terrorizing us for almost 100 years now. - The factory brought mass production, and destroyed our ecosystems. - etc. etc. Basically everything that's ever "happened" was because of some new technology we made because we thought it'd just be cool and helpful - maybe even obvious. Why are we still pretending this isn't something extremely important to come to terms with? Is it just because we specifically aren't involved in it? I mean we all contributed in some way, especially anyone who used Twitter, Reddit, or GitHub in the last 5 years. The author is absolutely right, and the only sensible thing to do is stop and figure out exactly what this new technology is and what it's implications are.