If I disagree (for now) with the shut-it-all-downists of both the ethics and the alignment camps—if I want GPT and other Large Language Models to be part of the world going forward—then what are my reasons? Introspecting on this question, I think a central part of the answer is curiosity and wonder.

Scott Aaronson, Should GPT exist?, Shetetl-Optimized, February 22, 2023, p. 3