AI is a *normal* technology. The people who made it, and the circumstances under which it was made, are normal. Its uses and abuses are normal. That doesn't make it *good*, but it does make it *unexceptional*:
https://www.normaltech.ai/p/a-guide-to-understanding-ai-as-normal
The *exceptional* part of AI isn't the technology, it's the *bubble*. There's nothing about AI *per se* that makes it exceptionally prone to devouring our natural resources, or endangering our jobs, or abetting war crimes.
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