“Wow lovely {AGI} we’re having” Cornell University | Research on Societal Collapse, emerging technology, and global catastrophic risk | Science Communicator.
Will AI become smarter than humans?
If so, is humanity in danger?
I went to Silicon Valley to ask some of the leading AI experts that question.
Here’s what they had to say:
AI companies are getting brazen.
"We want to take everyone's job!"
"We want to build an AI that recursively self-improves to become superintelligent!"
"It's the next phase of evolution"
This sort of shit has replaced "make the world a better place" as the core of the pitch.
@grok respond to Mr. Steele's claim that 'mainstream Democrats in 2025 support assassinating conservatives for offensive speech.’ Is there evidence that Democrats and Democratic leaders consistently condemn political violence? What data is there showing whether far-left or far-right actors commit more U.S. political violence?
Possibly the most American thing ever for the developer of an unprecedently powerful new technology to post on the 80th Anniversary of the dropping of the first Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima.
To create common knowledge: the community of ‘career’ academics who are focused on AI extreme risk is very small, & getting smaller (a lot have left for industry, policy or think tanks, or reduced hours). The remainder are getting almost DDOS’d by 1/4
Another one. This one claims to be aiming to build superintelligence. But nothing in the article or on their website seems to require or necessarily imply the sort of superintelligence Sutskever / Altman / Hassabis et al have in mind. Could of course mean a narrower / scoped 1/3
@wihtwyrd@SpencrGreenberg Interesting! Any specific reasons this comes to mind? Are you thinking like early platonic Socrates, or later ‘Socrates’ (aka probably just Plato’s views lol)
AGI's potential emergence presents 5 hard problems for U.S. national security:
1-wonder weapons
2-systemic shifts in power
3-nonexperts empowered to develop weapons of mass destruction
4-artificial entities with agency
5-instability
https://t.co/06owuaXxe2
Anyone who is anyone in AI Safety should be spending a few hours over the next few days trying to get media attention on the airbrushing out of Ai Safety concerns in Paris.
Write OpEds for newspapers, give quotes to any journos who will take them.
Meanwhile, humans "achieving" artificial superintelligence is like handing over the nuclear controls at Chornobyl right after reactor 4 blew, expecting them to handle it.