Human-level AI is most likely centuries or millennia away, so there is no reason to reorganise one's work around its arrival.

No longer holdsI was wrong, of course, not to contemplate more seriously the prospect that AI might enter a civilization-altering trajectory, not merely eventually but within the next decade.

Their words nowOnce I saw the empirical case that a generative AI revolution was imminent—sometime during the pandemic—I updated, hard.