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

441 points · 399 comments · ljewalsh

chasd00 · 1790595720 · 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. hellweaver666 · 1790597785 · focus · HN ↗
  I have a theory... the call to slow down is not because of the true danger of LLM's but because they can't actually deliver the General AI they're promising in the near future. They will use their "caution" to justify their failure to deliver (and then when this excuse is played out they will blame regulation, energy costs or a million other things).
  1. mofeien · 1790599155 · focus · HN ↗
    When, in the past three years, has model progress seemed to decelerate to you, indicating some limit?
    The Statement on AI Extinction Risk is more than three years old, signed by the three CEOs: <a href="https://aistatement.com/work/statement-on-ai-extinction-risk" rel="nofollow">https://aistatement.com/work/statement-on-ai-extinction-risk
    They have been warning about AI extinction risk for years, and AI progress has only been accelerating.
    nkrisc · 1790600646 · focus · HN ↗
    So either they’re full of shit or we need to stop them by any means necessary.
    solenoid0937 · 1790601384 · focus · HN ↗
    Or there's a middle path where you cure most death and disease by ensuring governments and society responsibly regulates superintelligence.
    Actually... nah. Why even try? Trendy cynical hot takes on social media are more fun!
    nkrisc · 1790601789 · focus · HN ↗
    I don’t believe them. I don’t believe that they are truly concerned about much beyond their own self interests.
    esseph · 1790602051 · focus · HN ↗
    > I don’t believe that they are truly concerned about much beyond their own self interests.
    They believe it's real and they MUST be the ones to control it. That's how they keep their self-interests aligned.
    fyltr · 1790602696 · focus · HN ↗
    Fun fact: 'they' are human beings too and some of their interests do allign with yours. They have kids too and might want them to have a proper future, they don't want to fall I'll to cancer either etc
    nkrisc · 1790604250 · focus · HN ↗
    I believe that they believe what they are doing is good.
    solenoid0937 · 1790608723 · focus · HN ↗
    No, they are comically evil mustache twirlers according to HN.
    solenoid0937 · 1790608778 · focus · HN ↗
    Just seems like unwarranted cynicism.
    Timon3 · 1790667640 · focus · HN ↗
    Seems more like pattern recognition to me. What else do you expect from the rich, when our society is explicitly set up to elevate greed to the highest virtue?

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