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>“There’s excitement from the tech press, but we’re also starting to see some negative threads about it being terrifying, ready to take humans’ jobs,” wrote Courtney Hohne, a director of communications at Google and the spokeswoman for Google X.

>Hohne went on to ask her colleagues to “distance X from this video” and wrote, “we don’t want to trigger a whole separate media cycle about where BD really is at Google.”

>“We’re not going to comment on this video because there’s really not a lot we can add, and we don’t want to answer most of the Qs it triggers,” she wrote.

AI fear-mongering is already doing damage. What a disappointment...



I cannot agree more.




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