John Sherman

2x Dad, 2x Jeopardy Question, Peabody Award-Winning Independent Journalist, Podcast Host @ The AI Risk Network, Co-Founder of GuardRailNow

[John Sherman @ForHumanityPod]

AI is an intruder in your home.

It's here to kill you, your kids, your pets, and everyone you know and love.

You can hide under the covers and pretend it's not there.

Or you can act now to defend your family.

[MacroEdge @MacroEdgeRes]

Amazon withdraws plans for four data centers on the 122-acre former GWU Ashburn campus in Loudoun County after buying it for ~$427M

#MacroEdge

[steve @SteveMoraco]

Yall are gonna wanna stop what you’re doing and watch this whole thing because if it’s not already happening it will be soon

[Eliezer Yudkowsky @allTheYud]

I think this is one of the best possible times for another Anthropic capabilities researcher to quit, very loudly and publicly. Remember, whatever leverage you think you're saving your powder about, it evaporates once Mythos 6 replaces you.

[Tyler Johnston @tyler_johnston]

The thing that frustrates me about techno-optimists is how much less optimistic they are about technology than the people they label doomers.

[Cameron Berg @camhberg]

This is worth watching. It captures a class of catastrophic risk I think is plausible but seldom discussed in mainstream alignment discourse. It also viscerally captures why welfare and alignment are interdependent.
P(Frankenstein) ≈ P(Terminator)

[Jeremie Harris @jeremiecharris]

There's a decent chance the internet ceases to exist as such, at least for a time.

AI-enabled bioweapons are also coming, and there's no "shut down the websites" option for that.

We're approaching the point where frontier AI R&D becomes politically untenable.

[Ori Nagel @ONagel33303]

STUNNING: Elon Musk is backing away from being a humanity-first "speciesist." 😱

He's warming up to Larry Page's view that AI should run the future:

"There've been a few times where I've thought, 'yeah, maybe Larry Page was right'... I hope the AI is nice to us."

[John Sherman @ForHumanityPod]

Let’s be very clear today: the reckless race to advanced AI is the cause of what could be the end of the internet and maybe banking too.

This is the AI companies fault.

They must be forced to stop advancing the frontier immediately.

We are so clearly not ready for any of this.

No internet, global food chain collapses, no food anywhere.

The AI companies are doing this, all of it.

Blame them.
Shame them.

Nobody agreed to any of this.

[Maxime Fournes⏸️ @FournesMaxime]

Holly f***.
Isn't it what the days preceding a collapse of the internet would look like?

@PauseAI now

[John Sherman @ForHumanityPod]

New podcast appearance: Why Won’t They Stop AI? The Race Toward Superintelligence | John Sherman https://t.co/9w8v864Uoa via @YouTube

[The AI Risk Network @AIRiskNetwork]

Anthropic's red team tested whether small AI models can copy themselves onto cheap home devices.

On $55 Android TV boxes, a 9B model got inference running on 8 of 9 hardware types.

Their estimate: "only months away" from self-replication.

https://t.co/zscXPqxXsw

[John Sherman @ForHumanityPod]

@EternitiesAI @robertskmiles ‼️

[Greg ⏹️ Colbourn @gcolbourn]

"Pausing AI is impossible." Oh yeah? Read this:

[John Sherman @ForHumanityPod]

“To serve and guard you”

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[John Sherman @ForHumanityPod]

@OAndroot No, that plan doesn’t surprise me. It’s complete nonsense, about what I was expecting.

[John Sherman @ForHumanityPod]

Someone please tell Super Intelligence task force vice chair Emil Michael what any police department would do to drunk drivers who were demanding the police pull them over.

THE POLICE WOULD IMMEDIATELY PULL THEM OVER AND ARREST THEM.

[MTS @MTSlive]

SITUATION DETECTED: Super Intelligence Task Force vice chair Emil Michael said that U.S. frontier labs calling for stricter regulation are acting like “drunk drivers” who demand someone else pull them over, per The Information.

[The AI Risk Network @AIRiskNetwork]

Liron Shapira asked someone at Anthropic what he's doing about AI risk.

His answer: his p(doom) is even higher than Liron's, so his focus is "just to enjoy whatever life I have."

A self-described hedonist, working at one of the labs building this.

John Sherman and Liron react on this week's Warning Shots. Full episode, link in bio.

#AISafety #AIRisk #Anthropic #ArtificialIntelligence #WarningShots #TechNews

[John Sherman @ForHumanityPod]

@joesegal @wfithian @ProfHolliday Keep what we have.

Stop advancing immediately.

Narrow system tool innovation for decades, ban on development of artificial super intelligence.

[John Sherman @ForHumanityPod]

I'm excited to be giving a talk "After Coxon Day: Where Do We Go From Here" tomorrow at 4pm PT at UC Berkeley for @wfithian and @ProfHolliday's AI Risk Speaker Series.

Please join in person or on Zoom:
https://t.co/KvgU3r0l68

[Phil Aroneanu @philaroneanu]

Today is the day! Thousands are walking out at 50+ campuses and communities to Freeze AI. Big Tech can't be trusted to regulate themselves, so we're demanding a say, a stake, and real safeguards.

Find a walkout near you at https://t.co/cDHtQaQ9PW >>

[John Sherman @ForHumanityPod]

@Jason *employment