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When did the pacers have this mass-revelation about dangers of AI? The timing is curious.

Which takes priority: public safety or the free-market + national security? The AI labs hype in now biting them in the ass: why would China and the rest of the world deny their businesses a technology that "is bigger than the invention of electricity" or whatever hyperbole the snake-oil salesmen came up with when they were not breathlessly declaring that the first side to get AGI wins forever.

Even if the pacers are right, it's like greenhouse emissions all over again; each country wants everyone else to cut emissions, but no one wants the economic hit of doing so.