It's absolutely wild that the Big Moral Question of our time is informed as much by mid-20th-century pop science fiction as it is by a existing paradigm from academia or genuine reckoning with the technology itself.

If anything that makes me more hopeful and not less. It's asking too much that major decisionmakers, even expert/technical/SV-backed ones, really understand the risks with any new technology, and it always has been.

To take an example: our current mostly-secure internet authentication and commerce world was won as a hard-fought battle in the trenches. The Tech CEOs rushed ahead into the brave new world and dropped the ball, because while "people" were telling them the risks they couldn't really understand them.

But now? Well, they all saw War Games growing up. They kinda get it in the way that they weren't ever going to grok SQL injection or Phishing.