Zack Kass

So the first camp is broadly leaders, thought leaders, community leaders.

The second camp are actual leaders.

CEOs and business practitioners, and the third are the policymakers, the politicians and the folks who actually enforce this stuff.

The first camp, which I think we all broadly fall into, or leaders broadly fall into, those who are talking about AI, I am afraid are getting a lot of things wrong.

There are a couple failure points here.

The first failure point is that so much discussion about AI

is about the business implications and critically these days, sort of like the market of AI.

And I find it to be not just annoying and pedantic, but also totally distracting.

I understand why CNBC has to talk about it because CNBC tracks the market.

Why do we need to spend so much of everyone else's energy talking about

OpenAI's Code Red and the financial engineering of these companies, it's not my argument that these things don't matter to someone.

It's that they don't matter to most people.

It sucks up so much oxygen when there is so much else to be talking about.

That, to me, is one of the distractions.

Another distraction is that the conversation seems to be getting very, very negative and dystopian.

And there is a lot of discussion around malicious or maligned superintelligence, around incredible job loss and job displacement, which we can talk about, around idiocracy, around misinformation and disinformation.

It doesn't come with any nuance because media, most narratives don't come with nuance.

And so it breeds this exceptional unease and quite honestly, anxiety.

There's like a cultural malaise and anxiety right now around AI.

And the third is a general lack of precision when it comes to language and words.