Anyone who claims AI is going to kill us I just assume is either an idiot, not knowledgeable enough about the technology to have a worthwhile opinion on it, or is fearmongering to hype their AI investment.
The thing that scares me more than any "tech" is runaway climate change. The feedback loops. We've pushed things really far into the red.
It could be argued that "tech" directly led to climate change, e.g. <a href="https://www.history.com/articles/industrial-revolution-climate-change" rel="nofollow">https://www.history.com/articles/industrial-revolution-clima...
Obviously many of these signatories are brilliant and knowledgeable. So that leaves some sort of investment hype. But AI stocks didn't increase in the days after the Coxon coverage; if anything the opposite. You just don't get rich by telling people that your product is going to kill everyone. Cigarette manufacturers insisted the opposite for ages. Jensen complains the AI doom talk is discouraging investment: <a href="https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-says-091101702.html" rel="nofollow">https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-sa...
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<a href="https://aistatement.com/work/statement-on-ai-extinction-risk" rel="nofollow">https://aistatement.com/work/statement-on-ai-extinction-risk
<a href="https://www.pacingthefrontier.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.pacingthefrontier.com/
Obviously many of these signatories are brilliant and knowledgeable. So that leaves some sort of investment hype. But AI stocks didn't increase in the days after the Coxon coverage; if anything the opposite. You just don't get rich by telling people that your product is going to kill everyone. Cigarette manufacturers insisted the opposite for ages. Jensen complains the AI doom talk is discouraging investment: <a href="https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-says-091101702.html" rel="nofollow">https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-sa...