The difference between AI and, say, looms, is that this has been broadcast to the entire globe, and it has been treated in a sort of self-conscious way
令人惊讶的是：文章指出AI与历史上其他技术变革(如织布机)的关键区别在于AI的全球广播性质和行业领袖的自我意识宣传。这种透明度反而加剧了公众的不安，因为AI领袖们不断谈论他们知道会引发问题的技术，这在历史上是前所未有的。
In 1996, technology historian Jennifer S. Light compared the talk of “cyberoptimists” about virtual communities to city planners’ earlier optimistic predictions about shopping malls. As the automobile colonized U.S. cities in the 1950s, planners promised that malls would be enclosed public spaces to replace Main Streets. But as Light pointed out, the transition to suburban malls brought new inequities of access and limited the space’s functions to those that served commercial interests.
Nice historical comparison.
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