Since Trump was elected in 2016, it’s been this relentless reactionary posture that the technology of the moment is the central threat of our time. Right now it’s AI and job loss; right before that it was crypto; in the mid-2010s it was Facebook/“fake news” etc.
David Sacks
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The Job Loss narrative is a classic case of confirmation bias. Every time a tech company announces layoffs, it is attributed to AI, even though the trend pre-dates GPT-4. And when new jobs are created, that rarely generates offsetting positive stories for AI.
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