Getting people to accept and adopt the technology can be harder than building the technology
If you don’t have a strategy for winning over users and regulators, it’s as bad as not having a product strategy
“If you build it, they will come” is unfortunately fiction
.@lulumeservey on why there’s no guarantee regulators let AI get used:
“One of the big problems with AI is actually not on the technical side. One of the big problems is societal adoption and societal acceptance.
If you're able to build the thing, that's hard, and we’ve got to do it, but that doesn't necessarily mean people will use the thing or that the people who govern other people will let them use the thing. So I actually think that, for AI, public perception—benevolent propaganda—is more important than for any other technology I can think of right now, other than maybe nuclear.
If you are a founder and you don't have a strategy for getting people to adopt this, for winning over the public, and for winning over regulators eventually, it's as bad as not having a product strategy because you have half of a strategy. You might make the thing, and there's no guarantee whatsoever that it'll ever get used.
And then the other thing about AI is that people don't understand it. It's esoteric. A lot of it is super confidential, where you can't share openly, and it's under incredible focus by regulators right now. There are all of these hoops that you have to jump through in order for your thing to get widely adopted.”
Date: 10/31/2024
