alt Hacker NewsI did marketing work for a major vegetation management company. These are the guys climbing trees, up in cherry pickers, and flying helicopters with dangling chainsaws to trim along power lines. It’s very dangerous work.
They do not hide the fact that it’s dangerous work. They focus on their safety procedures, training, and record. They want both potential clients and employment candidates to feel they are in good hands.
But you can visually see the danger.
AGI and AI danger is abstract. Worse, outside of the tech community, no one has the remotest clue what computing is, how it works.
Danger from magical daemons seems more sensible to such people. At least there is endless lore about them.
So until a massive disaster happens, one where large numbers of people die or are severely injured, no one will care. And it can't be politically entwined either, otherwise people will disbelieve 'cause "other team lies".