Daron Acemoglu, an MIT economist, is launching a series of posts on AI that focus on uncomfortable questions and potential dangers he feels the public conversation is avoiding. He's positioning himself as an outsider to AI science who wants to highlight important issues he believes industry insiders and media are overlooking.

• The current public conversation on AI is not addressing what Acemoglu sees as the biggest issues and dangers
• Important questions about AI are being neglected by both industry insiders and mainstream media coverage
• Acemoglu is explicitly disclaiming expertise in AI science while still attempting to shift the discourse toward questions he considers critical