Who isn't?

I'll be frank; the one thing that has terrified me for the last decade is the tech world. So much intelligence, but a shocking lack of either foresight or moral compass.

And some of the "darlings" of innovation are inevitable slides down the slide of full technocratic control. Self-driving with it's promise of the complete upending of the concept of ownership, and the eventual undoing of personal agency when each trip eventually turns into a "mother may I" implemented after the first time someone works the system in protest. "Trusted computing", which is, and will only ever be useful to Governments/industry to secure themselves against meddling by those pesky users. AI to replace those pesky opinionated humans that'll refuse to do what their told (and can be turned off, lobotomized, and suborned when they get too uppity). Mind reading via Brain->Computer Interface to serve as a building block to kinds of abuses that I never dreamed anyone would be foolish enough to flirt with.

The self-driving bit came coupled with testing on the populace before the bugs were worked out. Facebooks A/B testing on social manipulation, Uber's project Greyball... Boeing's race to the Ethical Engineering bottom with 737 MAX. Google enabling a whole new form of civic abuse in conjunction with Telco metadata providers.

If you have not looked at industry as empowered by tech, and come up with at least half a dozen ways that even some of the most banal systems imaginable (insurance claim/financial transaction processing) are capable of being leveraged as malicious and powerful tools of human social engineering, you have been asleep at the wheel, and been doing humanity a massive disservice.

But hey, new shiny I guess.

I happen to have a high IQ, and people are definitely intimidated by anyone with a large vocabulary and encyclopaedic knowledge of and skill in various professional fields. It’s a social curse that intelligent people live with every day. Judging by the current panic, people have similar feelings towards advanced AI too. But hey, the thing is just talking to you; you can always just ignore it and walk away.

I think this goes back to what people were complaining about with the Elon Musk AI letter. It's giant corporations/stock market not owning the giant potential jobs losses that's a bigger threat than Killer AI.