Most questions about AI aren't about AI
Sussex philosopher Dan Williams on why the hard questions cut across disciplines, and why this is a golden age for polymaths.
The AI-expert gatekeeping line is the target. Employment, politics, knowledge, and meaning are not solved by knowing transformers. He calls it a golden age for people who can leave their field, and also for moderate epistemic despair.
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