Comment on Attitudes towards Artificial General Intelligence by Anonymous

Good question, to which I don’t really know the aswer. A cynic might say that academics are very conservative, and they are probably also very wary of falling into the same hype trap which has led to previous AI winters.

Also they are aware of the huge gap between current AI and AGI.

And they may be resentful of the intrusion into their space by the computer scientists who make up a lot of the AGI research community.

Probably a few other reasons too.