@kikeboldnow@RyanGreenblatt If we manage to create an aligned AGI or ASI, we don't have to control it.
We are the ones creating this technology, every step of the way. If it's not aligned, we shouldn't and wouldn't create it.
In a hotel room in northeast Nigeria, I opened a leading AI chatbot, turned my laptop toward a former Boko Haram commander, and asked if he'd used it. He nodded.
"You type in the question… like 'How can I build a bomb?', and then it tells you how. It is like a human robot. We used it a lot."
My new study on how the jihadist terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI with @CamAISciPolicy, covered today in @nytimes 🧵/9
@rimfo@thomasfbloom@littmath It's only impressive to technical people (mathematician, AI/cs researchers, ..)
The rest of the world doesn't care. The AI awe moment for many people is yet to come..
Change is not the issue, it's not comprehending said change. It's happening so quickly that we lie to ourselves we understand it, so we don't stop.
But we need to stop
@pschofie79 Not only tech companies. It's pushed heavily by academic institutions, non-tech companies on their students and employees.
A seller's gotta sell, the real failure is in all these "authorities" yielding so naively.