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AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity

441 points · 399 comments · ljewalsh

  1. chasd00 · · focus · HN ↗
    I’ve never seen CEOs work so hard to make the public aware of how dangerous and out of control their flagship product is. It makes me automatically assume they’re scheming about something else like regulatory capture to protect their market.
    1. cmiles8 · · focus · HN ↗
      Agree it’s crazy, but it’s the least worst thing for them right now when considering they have completely failed to deliver all the promised impacts of AI. Remember when the same AI bros were saying there’d be mass unemployment by now because of these models?

      The growth of these companies is massively impressive as is the tech, but they are an order of magnitude or more off where they need to be to justify anything like the valuations they need to stay alive.

      It’s budget season in the corporate world and from what folks are saying things are not going well for the big labs. Token budgets are being slashed and companies are switching to open weight models. That coupled with the lack of demonstrable business impact at scale is setting the big labs up for a world of hurt. Something they can more easily explain if they have to “slow down” for safety. Unfortunately for them most folks don’t seem to be falling for that trick.

      1. ToucanLoucan · · focus · HN ↗
        > Unfortunately for them most folks don’t seem to be falling for that trick.

        Well everyone alive has been subject to an avalanche of AI-based products. Like even if you understand nothing about the tech, the fact that an LLM can't even manage to check the status of an order without weird issues makes the notion that it's going to go all SKYNET pretty hard to fit in the brain.

        1. esseph · · focus · HN ↗
          > the fact that an LLM can't even manage to check the status of an order without weird issues makes the notion that it's going to go all SKYNET pretty hard to fit in the brain

          I think this actually makes it far more likely something unintended does happen

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