I have started to think that the AI practitioners are getting pretty tired of non-programmers who apparently know all about AI without getting their feet wet... To the AI veterans, the ridiculous aspect of that annoyance seems silly and slightly outrageous. Unfortunately, that is the exact opposite of the truth.

I (and many many others like me, from AI practitioners to programming gurus to experienced CEO's and CTO's) are very worried, for excellent reasons, about CERTAIN ASPECTS of AI, (the military AI arms race, the job loss, the ever-widening income inequality) even while celebrating it's obvious stellar accomplishments too. And we are rightly concerned that the exponential growth of AI (which is absolutely true, whatever the AI practitioners think) is going to explode, leaving human beings behind in twenty to thirty years, as artificial beings wake up and realize they are superior to everything important about human beings.

This is not a silly thing, and those who are serious and sober think it's the greatest crisis ever, precisely because it's the human thing, and subject to all the human failings. Be real, for once, rather than breezily ironic until it's over, because if you're not incredibly careful and sober and wise, AGI will leap over you a billion-fold in a handful of years.