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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. meowface · 1790595788 · focus · HN ↗
  Or perhaps they've been saying this for literally decades because they earnestly believe it.
  1. chinathrow · 1790595979 · focus · HN ↗
    If they believe it, they can stop. All of them. There's no sign though that any pacing/slowdown or whatever is in place, zero.
    ForHackernews · 1790596505 · focus · HN ↗
    There was a NYT piece about this recently. They are believers in a millennialist cult in which the arrival of an omnipotent machine-god is thought inevitable, and the only question is whether it will be "aligned" (good) or "misaligned" (evil).
    They are the good heroes racing to make sure they bring forth the Aligned God because if they fail, surely the bad people will raise the Misaligned Devil.
    Ref w/gift link <a href="https://x.com/sapinker/status/2096236079477096630" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/sapinker/status/2096236079477096630
    meowface · 1790605410 · focus · HN ↗
    Pinker unfortunately has very little clue what he's talking about here. I eagerly await Scott Alexander's inevitable essay response to him.

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