There is a gargantuan technical challenge right in your face and few to none see it: all this confusion surrounding AI is an example of the tech industry completely fumbling and failing at the communications surrounding AI technology. What to know the biggest technical hole in all of human civilization? How to convey understanding in others, how to gain understanding from those too inarticulate to explain themselves, and the biggest baddie of them all: how to educate human society such that the discussion of disagreements and controversial issues does not trigger conflict and ultimately war.
This may all sound like 'wishy washy soft knowledge' but I don't think it is, that is a false distinction to claim that any problems that originate with communications are a "soft problem" and not worthy of technical or scientific analysis. I say such problems are technically too complex for our smartest. Such problems require huge amounts of empathy and life experience to even begin any level of forward progress capable analysis.
This may all sound like 'wishy washy soft knowledge' but I don't think it is, that is a false distinction to claim that any problems that originate with communications are a "soft problem" and not worthy of technical or scientific analysis. I say such problems are technically too complex for our smartest. Such problems require huge amounts of empathy and life experience to even begin any level of forward progress capable analysis.