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Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"

396 points · 457 comments · nmeagent

  1. surfmike · · focus · HN ↗
    When the CEOs of these companies are saying that we will risk extinction and jobs will be decimated, why do you even need a "foreign agent"?
    1. godwinson__4-8 · · focus · HN ↗
      Yet everyone laughed at the Google engineer who thought the LLM was sentient and it was being tortured...

      People just pick and choose what they want to hear when it suits them. The fact is most people thought AI was a joke. Now they realize it does React better than them they want it outlawed.

      It's their right to pursue their electoral and economic self-interest but it's really not like the average voter is more principled than the average tech CEO at this point.

      This fed was voted in by this public. Maybe stop lionizing what other people think and think for yourself.

      Do you think we risk extinction now more than ever because of AI? A simple refrain from slippery slope will show most AI doomerism is bordering on psychosis.

      I haven't seen one convincing model of AI existential risk. Can anyone offer one?

      1. nancyminusone · · focus · HN ↗
        AI doesn't need to be sentient to be dangerous. Obeying and doing what someone tells to do is more than enough. What do you think they will tell it to do, and do you think it will align with your interests or the interests of someone else? Somehow I don't think it will be used to give everyone free ice cream.

        >it's really not like the average voter is more principled than the average tech CEO at this point.

        Of course CEOs are more principled, their principles mainly include making more money. The only way for an AI to go "rouge" in this sense is for it to refuse to rake in cash.

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