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1. stephbook · 1790599773 · focus · HN ↗

   We've had movies like Terminator, Matrix, or i, Robot. Black Mirror Metalhead. Boston dynamics robo dog with a knife or a gun. Humanoids doing back flips. Memes making fun of how we are going to fight these for access to water.

   The intelligence is there and so is the physical incarnation.

   Google's models fold proteins better than humans and Covid might have been engineered and inadvertently escaped from a lab.

   But when CEOs warn of that, they're dismissed as scare mongers. Why? Are only powerless internet commentators allowed to be fearful?

   1. coffeeindex · 1790600011 · focus · HN ↗

      They aren’t attempting to self-regulate. On the contrary, it seems like they’re doing whatever they can to bring about any possible threat as fast as possible in order to get legislation. Regulatory capture is what everybody is saying is their goal and I think that’s easier to believe

      1. brainwad · 1790601572 · focus · HN ↗

         They are obviously trying to self regulate. That's the whole point of the calls to pace the frontier. See Anthropic's launch post for Opus 5.5 where they got third party sign off on its safety, or see the launch post for Astra where OpenAI explicitly calls out the safety improvements made on HuggingFace-esque evals. Self regulation won't help if other labs don't play ball, though.

         1. dmbche · 1790601843 · focus · HN ↗

            > Self regulation won't help

            You got it

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