Should we be afraid of AI?

You don't have to get yourself better informed. Info asymmetry and knowledge gaps are at all time highs.

There is nothing gained asking random ppl to be better "educated and informed" about things even experts are still processing.

Just remember, all the thousands of news stories and podcasts and stand up comedy routines and movies and shows "educating and informing the public" did absolutely nothing to stop the iraq/afghan war, or the 2008 meltdown, or the election of circus clowns, or the mindless attention economy and so many other serious issues. Zero effect on outcomes.

So there is this "let me tell you how to think and feel about x" buffoon class army that pops up everywhere these days. They are not doing anything useful (or abv outcomes wld be different) Other than collecting likes/followers to pay their own mortgages. So tune them out.

Leave things to the experts, is the least time/energy wasting move available.

We should be afraid of the powerful entities (corporations/governments) whose power will suddenly explode due to AI, and who have far more resources to pump into it to get a better AI.

The worse case scenario is that only few selective people have access to GPT10, and this makes those selective people an extremely huge advantage over others.