China: 83 [à vérifier]% [à vérifier] call AI beneficial. In the United States, 39 [à vérifier]% [à vérifier]. Source: Stanford AI Index, Ipsos survey. One side sells a tool. The other sells a threat.
Fear is an excellent way to capture attention. Headlines, hearings, funding rounds. The labs won that battle. Everyone knows their names.
But attention has two floors. Upstairs, capital and regulators. Downstairs, the people who do the work. Fear wins upstairs. It loses downstairs.
Models are becoming interchangeable. A commodity engine stops mattering. What matters is whose tool gets opened every morning. That is a habit. A habit is attention that no longer needs persuading.
Look where a tool gets installed without ceremony. Inside the messaging app. Inside the checkout. Nobody there attends a seminar on existential risk. They just pay for lunch.
The side that scares gets the headlines. The side that reassures gets the daily use. Daily use compounds. Headlines do not.
I see what is coming, not when. Fear will leave the sales pitch. Not from conviction. From arithmetic. My reading: a frightened customer does not renew. https://alexandrebruneau.com
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