The risk is much more structural than any specific manifestation of tech.
Technology advances inexorably, new domains are unlocked, creating ever more powerful abilities. The process is maybe even "exponential" - in the combinatorics sense.
Developments are thus capable of producing an ever increasing range good or bad outcomes.
But social technology, broadly defined, remains stagnant, actually regressing (if we take the deceitful and manipulative social media or the general (geo)political atmosphere as evidence).
That gaping discrepancy between technical ability and societal wisdom will not sustain for much longer.
Maybe we should stop pretending that computers can fix problems that have nothing to do with computers.
This entire forum is a testament to people who are so up their own ass they think we can "innovate" our way out of societal issues, as if the problem with the Luddites was that they didn't know javascript.
Technology advances inexorably, new domains are unlocked, creating ever more powerful abilities. The process is maybe even "exponential" - in the combinatorics sense.
Developments are thus capable of producing an ever increasing range good or bad outcomes.
But social technology, broadly defined, remains stagnant, actually regressing (if we take the deceitful and manipulative social media or the general (geo)political atmosphere as evidence).
That gaping discrepancy between technical ability and societal wisdom will not sustain for much longer.