@dalias Thanks for sharing your thoughts and MIT's AI lab was definitively not on my screen. Oh yes.
I work in sciComm and museum communication: Yes, normal people can understand the most complicated stuff if you explain lively, entertaining, and find metaphors/symbols. These can be very silly (I started my first interview with that 'AI' scientists: "Let's break down your complicated matter to a metaphor everybody can understand, let's say like a bratwurst." We laughed a lot