I'm afraid the Doomer discourse has persisted for another week (UN "AI" briefing, etc) so in case you missed this when we first put it out earlier in this bananas news cycle, I'm reposting it:
https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/what-to-read-to-stay-grounded-amidst-ai-doomerism/
w/ @alex and @deccamuldowney
@emilymbender @alex @deccamuldowney I wrote up a thing countering the "singularity" concept from a math-and-learning perspective: https://thoughtlost.org/nosingularity/
Hopefully it's another useful tool in the toolbox; it's not like it's mind-blowingly surprising statements, but I don't think I've seen anyone else make this same argument yet.