Dev argues AI's public perception will keep worsening as frontier progress accelerates
manosaie · x · 2026-11-09
Developer manosaie argues in a thread that negative mainstream perception of AI will only get worse near-term:
- Frontier insiders see progress accelerating beyond software engineering into biology, science, math, robotics and hardware, pushing the bounds of human knowledge.
- Even domain experts struggle to grasp the pace, so the benefits are even harder to translate for everyday people, who build mental models from what they can see, touch and feel — with no priors for what's happening.
- That deepens AI's PR crisis, heightening the urgency to diffuse the benefits back into the world as soon as possible.
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