Ex‑Anthropic Researcher Tells BBC AI Staff 'Genuinely Frightened' for Humanity
Maybe they won’t. We certainly hope they don’t. But when the people building this technology are warning that the risks could be catastrophic, those warnings should be taken seriously.
LovePet🐦⬛🐝🌺🪷🪻🪺🐎🐋🐕🦺7Fuck that guy Look he is 80 years old and in bad health He will thankfully be gone sooner than later & that glorious day cannot come soon enough
caquail3.bsky.social7Reuters article says both R’s and D’s are calling for legislation regarding AI oversight.Maybe the fear of human extinction will be what gets R’s serious about something other than being pro trump.Maybe they’ll work with D’s.On the other hand AI is “pouring money” into R candidates.Same ol’same old.
To him”Negative Force” means anything and anyone getting between him and his personal profit.
🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🇬🇱5So refreshing that a geriatric moron that couldn’t tell the difference between a woman he raped and his exwife tells us “they’re just over reacting”. 😡
Unlikelyoutcome5I believe nothing he says.
I suspect Trump is concerned with losing money. He certainly isn't concerned with America's welfare. Such a loser.
so we're all in agreement that Open AI and Anthropic now clucking about 'slowing down' is just them going 'look, we're not gonna step out from behind the curtain yet, but let us assure you: we TOTALLY have clothes on' right
Kris Wolfheart101"OpenAI won't IPO yet because we need to prioritize safety, I am definitely not worried that an IPO will make me vulnerable to big boy criminal law"
Häschen Schwartz🐰👑VILLAINOUS VTUBER12all the "we need to slow down are it'll DESTROY THE WORLD!!" stuff just feels like a pathetic advertising campaign
Jugment6That too but they probably just want chinese ai banned since it's like less than 1/10th of what they charge or something like that.
Blargg5That's part of it. But I think another major reason for it is that they want regulatory capture. Regulatory capture locks them in as the big players and hinders, if not outright snuffs out, their smaller competitors. Locally run FOSS models absolutely scare them as it renders them pointless.
genious4i think its bc the tech has plateaued and they need a way to justify why no further advances are coming without saying "yeah show's over, sorry"
Norbert3Also we already did this "AI companies fear we may need to slow down" like three years ago.
You really cannot *neutrally* read this essay. It is an intervention by the head of Anthropic, a company still racing towards IPO. Your reaction to the essay really depends on whether you view Dario as The Good AI Guy.
Dave Karpf151I'll grant that Amodei is the Less-Bad AI Guy. I believe he has a conscience. Sam Altman and Elon clearly don't. But just as the Effective Altruists started from good intentions, and eventually decided buying themselves a castle was the most altruistic, Amodei's intentions are easily warped.
Thomas Long6I view him as “the guy they’re trying to make you believe is the good AI guy”
David Kaye3even if he is that guy, it's a v low bar, and until he actually imposes real restraint, he's much more a part of the problem than an agent of its solution.
Ceci n’est pas un nacho | homonormative1gosh golly he is such a Deep Thinker oh my goodness me such profound wisdoms doth he spew
Then slow it down! We're not the ones who're developing it as if there's no tomorrow. www.bbc.com/news/article...
jess m. ☕🍂1116they're going to "scale back" because AI is bottoming out, and then say they did it out of the goodness of their hearts and interest in humankind
Michael C. Bailey - Indie Author, Stage Combat Guy127It's such a tell, the absolute chaos of their messaging. AI is awesome and useful and inevitable, but it's getting out of control and could kill us all so we're going to pump the brakes, but keep using it or you'll be left behind, but we have no path to profitability and we're all in deep debt.
Lumi 🐻❄️10reeks of desperation p-pwease don't u-use our pwoduct we're making too dangewous pwowuct uwu *bats eyelashes towards whoever is responsible for military funding*
👹 AlizarinRed 🧿 // EN VTuber7Dario Amodei... Dario Aimode...... Mario AI Mode......... Sweet Mother of God
CJmckay5Ladies and Gents, this is a clear sign that the AI overhype is losing its momentum.
Basil May3This is a marketing strategy and it says a lot about our current world that "machines destroy planet" is what they'd rather go with than "we over invested in this mid-tech"
Old Ogremode3Their endgame here is to make it so these companies are the only AI game in town please don’t buy into this coordinated PR campaign
Lino3Looks like there's a lack of capital inflow for the cult
Mao Mao!2....chat is this good? Luke financially speaking?
From Raw America: 1.THIS IS HUGE: Bernie Sanders just said the quiet part out loud on AI. Even the tech CEOs building this stuff admit it needs to slow down. Bernie says that's not nearly enough. Read that again. This week, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay warning that AI development
Lori32. is moving faster than anyone's ability to keep it safe. He pointed to AI systems now helping build their own successors, and a recent incident where a swarm of autonomous AI agents launched unauthorized cyberattacks and tried to tamper with their own safety evaluations. Amodei's warning:
THE DEMOCRATS TOLD YOU SO...WE ARE RESTING.1He worth listening to as well: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJo4...
AI is not about to go all Terminator on us. It is not capable of running the physical infrastructure to maintain and reproduce itself without human workers. It is, however, still an existential threat to us because of its rapidly increasing contributions to climate change. 1/2
jon-sociologist.bsky.social3AI is not going to kill us all with T1000s, but it is getting dangerously close to rendering the World uninhabitable for us through CO2 emissions (its water usage is also definitely not helping). Here's a link to the same article on MSN in case you hit a paywall on the direct link. 2/2
Pavlov's Other Dog 🐾🐶🎶📚📸⚾️🐐1I see the dangers as real on both levels. I've been cautioning against AI for the past two years. I just fear that we lack the intelligence to recognize the obvious. Also, technologists seem to lack the 'kill switch' on their own hubris.
Debi Ann1The AI CEO’s are responsible for their creation.
