An opinion piece by Canadian writer Stephen Marche in the Guardian against AI doomerism. He makes a few points I've made before, such as: 1. "I have heard geniuses – bona fide geniuses – declare that medical schools should no longer teach radiology because it would all be automated soon." 2. "Many of the most important engineers in the field indulge in AI doomerism [...]. But one of the defining features of our time is that the engineers [...] simply have no idea how their inventions interact with the world" 3. "The biggest anxiety – that an artificial general intelligence is about to take over the world – doesn’t even qualify as science fiction. That fear is religious." 4. "AI might well make it slightly easier to generate fake content, but the problem of misinformation has never been generation but dissemination. The political space is already saturated with fraud and it’s hard to see how AI could make it much worse." theguardian.com/commentisfre…