Imagine if you somehow knew a war was coming in the next few years. Imagine if you knew this war would change societies, transform economies, and possibly even endanger humanity. Now imagine Britain held a general election, with that certain knowledge of imminent turmoil, and no one mentioned it, and instead the politicians waffled on about stealth taxes, low traffic neighbourhoods, and making energy drinks harder to obtain for children aged 15 and 3/4.
Not only is this raging silence insane, it is bizarrely, recklessly irresponsible
That would be mad, right? And yet that is what we are doing in Britain today, in regards to the looming revolution that is Artificial Intelligence. We are simply not talking about it. I haven’t heard a single politician mention it, reference it, discuss it, in any but the most glancing fashion (‘it might help productivity in the NHS’).
Not only is this raging silence insane, it is bizarrely, recklessly irresponsible.
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