You might be correct that some people are panicking about this for moral reasons, but I don’t think we can conclude that’s all that is happening here, or that t

You might be correct that some people are panicking about this for moral reasons, but I don’t think we can conclude that’s all that is happening here, or that this is a baseless concern. Taking morals out of this, and instead focusing on human nature along with current trends, it’s not hard to imagine this having a real impact. I don’t think any of these possible downsides are a foregone conclusion, but neither should we dismiss the unpredictable impact of developments that fundamentally alter the sources of satisfaction for basic human biological drives. We already know that we’ll happily trade the future for short term satisfaction, so when something new comes onto the scene that encourages the proliferation of this behavior, we should bring curiosity, not dismissal. We’ve already observed similar phenomena in nature [0] (the bottles were eventually redesigned to protect the species), and while this doesn’t prove that humans are as susceptible as beetles, it’s worth considering the nature of unintended consequences. The term moral panic has started to lose its meaning, and caution about AI should not be conflated with unjustifiable beliefs about culturally controversial pastimes. They are orthogonal and unlike each other, and the nature of the concerns are quite different. - [0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1440-6055.1983.tb01846.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1440-6055.1983...