Tech Prophecy and the Underappreciated Causal Power of Ideas [Pinker 2019] [pdf] (stevenpinker.com)

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Essay in "Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI" from 2019.

A good take; summarizes many of my thoughts. That said, one thing he missed was economics, i.e. in this context the ever-increasing concentration of wealth and power.