My reaction, too. For an interview as long and wide-ranging as that one, the lack of any mention of safety or ethical issues stood out. And the potential impact on employment was just waved away with “I am confident that the sum total of value and progress in humanity will accelerate extraordinarily with welcoming artificial beings into our community of working on things.”
That's kind of what we (collective "we" — eggheads) are often accused of: blinders, tunnel vision, or perhaps even ego or callousness to develop these things in spite of the rather dystopian ramifications.
