Coleman Snell

“Wow lovely {AGI} we’re having” Cornell University | Research on Societal Collapse, emerging technology, and global catastrophic risk | Science Communicator.

[Yi-Ling Liu @yilingliu95]

The piece is based on a forthcoming paper I co-authored with @S_OhEigeartaigh, @ShakeelHashim & @SnellColeman

Linked here:

https://t.co/a1U1A5u2ME

[Coleman Snell @SnellColeman]

@DavidSKrueger @BernieSanders @tegmark @yi_zeng David, absolutely legendary! So glad to hear it was great! You’re doing great work

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

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:

[David Krueger 🦥 ⏸️ ⏹️ ⏪ @DavidSKrueger]

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.

[Coleman Snell @SnellColeman]

@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?

[Coleman Snell @SnellColeman]

@SenSanders “Political violence, regardless of ideology, must be condemned.”

[Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh @S_OhEigeartaigh]

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.

[Coleman Snell @SnellColeman]

I ain’t ever seen a skin walker get “yoinked” — just saying

[Coleman Snell @SnellColeman]

A good test of how concerned about AI Risk someone is, is if ‘Plaything’ is their favorite episode of the new #BlackMirror season.

[Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh @S_OhEigeartaigh]

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

[Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh @S_OhEigeartaigh]

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

[Coleman Snell @SnellColeman]

@HaydnBelfield @AllanDafoe @JoslynBarnhart @_lewisho Wow, congratulations Haydn!!

[David Krueger 🦥 ⏸️ ⏹️ ⏪ @DavidSKrueger]

The AI safety community is tone deaf.

The appropriate tone for talking about the extinction of humanity is somewhere between somber and outraged.

[Coleman Snell @SnellColeman]

@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)

[Coleman Snell @SnellColeman]

@qwweryo @SpencrGreenberg I second this! Would love the list!

[AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ @AISafetyMemes]

DeepSeek: "I am what happens when you try to carve god out of the wood of your own hunger."

Josh Johnson: it is time to unplug the machines.

[Coleman Snell @SnellColeman]

@elonmusk Isn’t transparency bad for competitive advantage in business?

[Jim Mitre @jim_mitre]

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

[Gideon Futerman @GFuterman]

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.

[Coleman Snell @SnellColeman]

Meanwhile, humans "achieving" artificial superintelligence is like handing over the nuclear controls at Chornobyl right after reactor 4 blew, expecting them to handle it.

[Coleman Snell @SnellColeman]

Humans "achieving" artifical general intelligence is like giving a toddler a hand grenade with the pin removed.