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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. stingraycharles · · focus · HN ↗
      Yeah it seems like it went from “AGI” to “threatening” / “recursive self improvement”

      They’re trying really hard to do something, no moat = regulatory capture + China scary + Pentagon biggest customer seems plausible.

      Also: “we need to slow down, this is too dangerous” and then literally all AI CEOs, even Musk, publicly nodding felt so orchestrated. And then, the week after: “here’s GPT 6! here’s Opus 5.5!”

      1. PowerElectronix · · focus · HN ↗
        Please, make us* stop!!!

        *Our competition

        The numbers don't add up when there are 2-3 main companies in the market. Imagine when there's a hundred more and people have powerful enough gear at home to run models.

        Yes, I think at some point demand for gpus and the like will normalize and regular folks will be able to afford RAM, SSDs and such. And when that happens, super big iron in the anthropic/openai backroom is toast.

        1. someonebaggy · · focus · HN ↗
          The problem with this prediction is that the AI hype bubble is the economy - or one third of it, at least. Seeing as the economy is not 50% larger than it was before the bubble, we should be scared of what exited the economy to make room for it, and what will happen to our jobs when it pops.
          1. radlad · · focus · HN ↗
            > the AI hype bubble _is_ the economy - or one third of it, at least.

            The closest claim to this I could find was:

            > the top ten stocks account for more than one-third of the value of the US Market Index, which contains 1,161 companies.

            And while the top ten stocks are largely companies that work on AI, it's not all they do: Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Apple...

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