@timnitGebru Vermonter here, I’m presuming he has bad guidance on this and is not distinguishing between efficacy of AI, the threat of this form of capitalist exploitation and their fantasies — which is what he is fighting against and his primary concern.
I have many friends who are not in the field who genuinely believe in AI as existential threat — because it’s what they hear and they are not trained or have the context to know better. I don’t presume any of them are carrying water for the exploiters because of that. I refer them to DAIR and your materials, for example.