If we give up on understanding the software that runs our lives, we deserve every misfortune that will befall us. Extinction will be a fitting fate then.
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The point is not everyone needs to understand it. For example, not everyone is a fork life operator and fork lift operators are not physics phds.
I have nearly zero knowledge about compiler, but I can do computational research without any difficulty. Likewise, one day, it is possible for us to do computational work without any knowledge about programming.
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You mean like governments that think they are above the law, sponsor the oppression of other people and consistently protect criminals? I agree, it would be depressing to have any oppressive government be the main funding source or “guardian” of AI or any other research really. We already have a terrible precedent for governments abusing AI in the worst way possible.
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The editorial (link below) raises an important point about the economic reality of the current incarnation of ML (or as the proponents like to call it, AI):
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