'I handle a £100 million budget for a London council, but I can't get a job at McDonald's.'
Deputy Mayor of Hackney Dylan Law explains how tough the job market is for young workers, and he thinks he's living proof.
The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger.
Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources. We have all witnessed the progress in each of these domains, and progress is not slowing.
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
🚨🗣️ Yamal “Who didn’t put me in his top three?”
Reporter “Dembélé...”
🗣️Yamal "Is he friends with Kylian, right? Every time I've faced the two of them together Mbappé and Dembélé, they must not like me for some reason"