OK,😁 but I think most of the fear people have doesn’t come from real AI — it comes from decades of Hollywood scenarios. The public reacts more to stories than to actual technology. Terminator, Matrix, Ex Machina, I, Robot, Westworld, Black Mirror… a lot of the panic feels cultural, not technical.
And the most ridiculous example is how mass media works. People seems to react only to headlines or dramatic stories. Like when the media publishes a scary futuristic headline such as “AI will replace all jobs by next year” and not only 😊 People panic instantly, even though the article itself is usually full of speculation. They don’t read the details — they just react to the headline and spread the fear. We absorb the context and repeat it as if it were absolute truth.
RE: How Much AI Do We Really Need? Data centres are devouring energy, water and land (protest)