It should be noted that the article author is an AI researcher at Anthropic and therefore benefits financially from the bubble: https://www.julian.ac/about/ htt

It should be noted that the article author is an AI researcher at Anthropic and therefore benefits financially from the bubble: https://www.julian.ac/about/ https://www.julian.ac/about/ > The current discourse around AI progress and a supposed “bubble” reminds me a lot of the early weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic. Long after the timing and scale of the coming global pandemic was obvious from extrapolating the exponential trends, politicians, journalists and most public commentators kept treating it as a remote possibility or a localized phenomenon. That's not what I remember. On the contrary, I remember widespread panic. (For some reason, people thought the world was going to run out of toilet paper, which became a self-fulfilling prophesy.) Of course some people were in denial, especially some politicians, though that had everything to do with politics and nothing to do with math and science. In any case, the public spread of infectious diseases is a relatively well understood phenomenon. I don't see the analogy with some new tech, although the public spread of hype is also a relatively well understood phenomenon.