AI would be much easier to be optimistic about if it were in the hands of people I like and trust. Its in the hands of people who appear to be complete psychopaths instead.
On the other hand I'm amazed at how flat access is. Access to the best models available is incredibly inexpensive relative to technology in the past, and everyone in the world with at least a smartphone has access to an LLM of some sort now.
Second, the technology is very open. It's not as if the ONLY way to access an LLM is to pay a toll to Sam Altman. Models that are very good can run on my Macbook for the price of electricity and they're only getting better.
