The horrors of the Y2K bug are so easily forgotten: some web sites displayed "19100" as a date! Truly the official paranoia over "are we ready for Y2k" was far

The horrors of the Y2K bug are so easily forgotten: some web sites displayed "19100" as a date! Truly the official paranoia over "are we ready for Y2k" was far more bothersome than the actuality of the bugs that needed fixing. For allt he hype about "the world will end" it was easy to see that even in the worst cases we could roll the damned clocks back and continue to get things done. No one wanted to talk about that because the Apocalypse is so much more fun. Right now, just the same, people really want to talk about "AI is going to kill us all" but not "AI isn't "intelligent" even with recent advances . The question of "just what is 'intelligent'" is one we want to avoid, lest we are forced to include some higher mammals and exclude some less able humans. I agree people are seeing the same thing; an opportunity to panic in a fun, safe way, over possibilities that common sense strongly suggests will not have severe consequences.