It's not even necessarily behind the scenes. The thing that kind of radicalized me was talking to the engineers and the people at the company saying, “What are you going to be doing once we succeed and don't have jobs?” They said, “Oh, I'll just be clicking 'accept suggestion' all day,” or, “I'll be taking a much-needed vacation.” No one has really thought this through.
Again, as I said, the lab leaders are saying, loud and clear, that there's no plan here. This is going to undermine our economy and democracy, and no one has a good answer. They talk about how we need to have a societal conversation about how to replace it, but that's just filler for saying, “I don't have a plan and no one's come up with a plausible-sounding one yet.”
Twitter is where most of the interesting conversations happen, with lab employees giving their takes. It's not a secret insider opinion. People are being pretty open about what they think.
