Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck

A tech writer argues that regulatory and political bottlenecks, rather than a lack of AI intelligence, are the primary obstacles to progress in fields like medicine and housing. The piece reflects on a conversation with an AI lab employee who believes AGI will eventually bypass these human-made constraints.
Edit: To be clear, I'm not saying everyone or even a majority of people in the SF tech scene think this way. But some certainly do (e.g. the opening conversation is verbatim) and this post is about a particular core scene whose views carry disproportionate weight in the discourse and in policymaking.
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