Majority of the 'ordinary people' don't care, and don't want to care. They just want to think about their next tourist trip, or getting coffee, or where to get lunch and dinner next. You try talking about the world-historical impact, the job-ending impact, the sci-fi level progression, THEY DON'T CARE. And that even includes tech workers.
The time to adapt to AI is now (Getting a trade is the safest bet), but obviously 99% of the population doesn't want to do any adaptation. So when GPT5,GPT6 comes out, only then will they confront AI, without any mental preparation.
That's why there's no point slowing down. People won't be alerted until the AI's get advanced enough, so better push it forward, to shock people into action. Institutions can move suprisingly fast when pushed to, every school and university has had to respond to ChatGPT already, and it kind of works. Otherwise people will just try and pretend this doesn't exist, forever.
