Adam Wesołowski
You write:
<<... people seem to have understood that scientific progress is the way to go whether we like it or not.>
If we trace the path of the Homo genus for 2.5 million years from the manufacture of the first tool (chopper) to a nuclear missile with a multiple warhead, then this path is an uncontrolled fall into the future. Today we need a turn of consciousness towards the creation of a Sustainable Life World, a new dialogue between Science and Humanity with Nature, a new dialogue and mutual understanding between us, Earthlings.
"The concept of "artificial intelligence" is a marketing metaphor. Correct from an ontological point of view - "artificial quasi-intelligence".
Dmitry Kwon, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences:
"Many AI lovers do not understand well that from the point of view of physics, that is, the only literate science, even a hand-held adding machine has artificial intelligence, not to mention a modern personal computer (PC). Both the first and second can from time to time as a result of the failure of which - any of the parts (mechanical in the case of an adding machine and semiconductor in the case of a PC) to give out such that anyone prone to mystical explanations (and almost all citizens of the world are such, since few of them understand that, for example, the voice in their mobile phones - this is the result of the propagation of electromagnetic waves of meter length around the globe only due to the presence of the Earth's atmosphere), this will seem like God's punishment. Same with AI.
Few of his ardent fans realize that this is just an electron moving in a complex potential field, and he can do such a thing in terms of intelligence under the influence of this field that he will not dream even in the most fantastic dream. Accordingly, few people fully understand that computers, smartphones, navigators, robots, etc., etc. are just devices for processing an electrical signal. And that they are extremely sensitive to various kinds of influences caused by the fact that our entire terrestrial space floats in an ocean of electromagnetic and electronic waves, interference and diffraction of which can build such a thing in the work of all the electronic toys listed above.... As a result of the information technology revolution of the late twentieth century, the world has become more fragile than ever."
(D.Kwon, "Artificial intelligence as a triumph of idiocy / From the point of view of physics, AI has even a manual arithmometer", 2020)
