What are your biggest concerns around the social and political impact of AI? How do you feel about the AI social panic?

Hi guys, I’m a digital sociologist and I’m so excited to have found this community!

So, there’s a lot of public discourse on what the future holds in regard to AI. People are concerned about the potential sociocultural and political effects of AI, or rather the effects that we’re already seeing but we still lack the tools to fully understand.

Because this technology is still very misunderstood by the general public, I’d like to know AI developers’ perspectives on the social panic around it. How do you feel about the public perception of AI? As people who are actually “in the game”, what are your genuine concerns? How can they be addressed?