GoKawiilYou're not the only one annoyed by the hype
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Chris Willis, chief design officer and futurist for data platform biz Domo, wonders why people aren't more annoyed with AI companies.
Willis said he was in San Francisco a few weeks ago and he couldn't fathom the lack of resentment.
"Why aren't people more resentful that these companies have pushed this technology upon them and now everyone is feeling a tremendous amount of anxiety," he told The Register in an interview. "I'm sure you've seen the surveys and the research. Everyone from the C-suite on down feels like the clock is ticking and their careers are on the line."
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San Francisco is the home of OpenAI and Anthropic. Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are also in town. So there's a lot of self-interested AI enthusiasm in the city by the bay.
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The resentment is there if you look beyond the billboard evangelism shouting its way down the US 101 corridor that connects the city to Silicon Valley proper. But the existential dread behind Stop AI, Pause AI, Poison Fountain, and the firebombing of OpenAI CEO's Sam Altman's home isn't quite what Willis has in mind.
He's concerned with the way AI has been marketed through fear – act now or be left behind by this technology that might just take everyone's job and enable DIY biological weapons, now that LLMs can more reliably count the number of "r"s in "strawberry."
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