I’ve thought about this quite a bit. The gun control debate and the AI debate are both about one thing: can We the People be trusted to handle great power ourselves, or do we hand over our freedoms to a tyrant who will dole them out to us?
Thomas Jefferson said it best. Education is the key. Most of the people who fear AI simply don’t understand it.
To those people I’ll just say: pay close attention to those who are trying to educate you vs. those who want you to remain fearful and in the dark.
“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is, not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.”