Outside the AI bubble, everyone is asking about fear, not features
annetgriffin · x · 2026-09-25
AI practitioners report a surge of questions from non-tech people — a farmers-market vendor asking if AI will kill us all, relatives in India asking if AI will replace them. The dominant public emotion is fear, not curiosity about products or upskilling, revealing a stark gap with industry optimism.
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