I was expecting this to be "person who expects to make enormous sums of money from AI thinks AI is a great idea", but somehow it was worse. For instance, I did

I was expecting this to be "person who expects to make enormous sums of money from AI thinks AI is a great idea", but somehow it was worse. For instance, I did not expect it to explicitly call for a new cold war against China that pits their authoritarian vision for AI against a completely unregulated, corporate profit-driven vision for AI. The lack of self-awareness there is mind-blowing. The author also thinks that wages have grown rapidly over the last few decades in proportion to labor productivity (!!!), that outsourcing and automation have turned out to be great for everyone, that AI replacing existing labor en masse would immediately and obviously result in more and higher-paying jobs, and that concerns about rising inequality and billionaires sucking up all the new wealth are literally Marxism and should thus be dismissed outright. (His links supporting this mostly go to conservative think tanks and Wikipedia articles on economics, in case you were wondering.) Meanwhile, the upsides of AI are described using language like this: > Every child will have an AI tutor that is infinitely patient, infinitely compassionate, infinitely knowledgeable, infinitely helpful. The AI tutor will be by each child’s side every step of their development, helping them maximize their potential with the machine version of infinite love. > Every person will have an AI assistant/coach/mentor/trainer/advisor/therapist that is infinitely patient, infinitely compassionate, infinitely knowledgeable, and infinitely helpful. The AI assistant will be present through all of life’s opportunities and challenges, maximizing every person’s outcomes. Which (taken literally) is too optimistic for Star Trek, much less real life. Viewed through the lens of Silicon Valley venture capitalism and its products, it is terrifyingly dystopian. I'll leave you to read the part where regulation is literally a reenactment of prohibition for yourself. With all the straw-manning, it didn't even touch on more realistic problems like effortless, undetectable cheating on school homework or the proliferation of circular references.