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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. _heimdall · · focus · HN ↗
      Said CEOs are horribly biased, they have fiduciary responsibilities that make them useless judges on the relative risk/reward balance of LLMs and AI, if we get there.
      1. c0nducktr · · focus · HN ↗
        Claiming your product increases the risk of extinction doesn't sound like something someone would do if it were just for fiduciary duty.
        1. icepush · · focus · HN ↗
          If their activities materially increase the probability of human extinction and this poses a risk of potential loss to shareholders then they must disclose it.
          1. vkou · · focus · HN ↗
            If their activities materially increase the probability of human extinction, is there any reason that they should not be treated as invading aliens, or doomsday apocalypse-cult terrorists?

            Like, why on Earth would anyone tolerate someone in the same train car playing with a grenade?

            1. someonebaggy · · focus · HN ↗
              If we treated people they eat based on those criteria we'd have to treat oil companies and all political parties that way too.
              1. vkou · · focus · HN ↗
                The politicians don't actively promise that what they are doing has a 10% chance of ending humanity, in fact, they claim the opposite.
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