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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. hellweaver666 · · 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 · · 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:&#x2F;&#x2F;aistatement.com&#x2F;work&#x2F;statement-on-ai-extinction-risk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aistatement.com&#x2F;work&#x2F;statement-on-ai-extinction-risk

        They have been warning about AI extinction risk for years, and AI progress has only been accelerating.

        1. palmotea · · focus · HN ↗
          &gt; They have been warning about AI extinction risk for years, and AI progress has only been accelerating.

          So, they&#x27;re either liars or homicidally reckless.

          1. bryan0 · · focus · HN ↗
            Unfortunately if the frontier labs that care about safety stop or slow down unilaterally, that doesn’t make the problem go away. It makes it worse when labs that do not care at all about safety, or deny that it is even a problem, are leading the way. That’s why there’s needs to be some form of international regulation.
            1. icantevenhold · · focus · HN ↗
              Incidentally this regulation won’t really touch the US providers - at least it sounds like that’s the plan if you listen to current US admin
              1. bryan0 · · focus · HN ↗
                The impression I get is that there is absolutely no coherent plan at all for any type of regulation us domestic or otherwise
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