Gian Klain

Conceptual Artist // Immersive Storyteller // Mindful Patterns //

[Gian Klain @gklain]

The Anthropic Exile
I just launched a Substack.
First piece is already up—part satire, part wishful thinking, part bug report about AI and what happens when Washington trades ethics for loyalty.

https://t.co/pfZRuqcQbc

[Gian Klain @gklain]

I just wrote my first note on Substack
https://t.co/ZmsFrLZ4Js

[Gian Klain @gklain]

@marcvidal that is not Samedan airport....

[Future of Life Institute @FLI_org]

"We all have to engage... If we don't ask those big questions, if we don't make those big decisions, other people simply will make them for us."

-@AnthonyNAguirre on the FLI Podcast with host
@GusDocker, linked below:

[heatinitiative @heatinitiative]

This is what happens when we let AI into our homes—especially with kids. No guardrails. Real risks. Lives lost.

Take action before the White House and Congress strips states’ power to protect families:
👉 https://t.co/VOLl3SzIEj

[Future of Life Institute @FLI_org]

Ungoverned AI is a global threat.

We urgently need international cooperation to mitigate the catastrophic risks it presents.

We need governments to step in to protect humanity, and regulate AI development & deployment.

[Gian Klain @gklain]

@cybersandwich 100% damit einverstanden!

[AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ @AISafetyMemes]

The average AI engineer thinks there is a 10-40% chance AI kills everyone.

So why do they still build AI?

@michael_nielsen shares a story:

"I was at a Bay Area party recently and met a senior person at a well-known AI startup. They thought “humanity had about a 50% chance of extinction” caused by AI.

I asked why they were working at an AI startup if they believed that to be true.

They told me that while they thought it was true, “in the meantime I get to have a nice house and car.”

[Obviously, incentives matter, but AI researchers have diverse motivations (see quote tweet) and many are good people.

Some (~1 in 10) work on AI because they think AIs causing human extinction is evolutionary progress.]

[Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ @ESYudkowsky]

Me: Can you draw a very normal image?

ChatGPT: Here is a very normal image depicting a tranquil suburban street scene during the daytime.

Me: Not bad, but can you go more normal than that?

(cont.)

[Gian Klain @gklain]

@tegmark How does it make you feel?

[Max Tegmark @tegmark]

@cwilstrup My poll was inspired by the Beff Jezos quote below, which I interpret as replacement of our entire human species by machines：

[Future of Life Institute @FLI_org]

"Regulation with strong safeguards and external controls is essential, and will contribute to responsible innovation that could give #EU companies a competitive edge."

Experts from civil society + tech calling for foundation models in #AIAct.
https://t.co/F9TZbKnHSN @Mediapart

[Gian Klain @gklain]

ASI might of already happened... https://t.co/G6w8qOusl3

[AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ @AISafetyMemes]

Skeptics just one year ago: don’t worry, AGI is 100 years away

Skeptics now: don’t worry, AGI is at least 3-5 years away

Have you stopped to think about what this means?

The world as we know it really may end in the next few years.

Americans are now 5 to 1 (!) in favor of banning the development of superintelligent AIs - with bipartisan support.

The average AI engineer thinks there is a ~40% chance AI destroys the world.

A few tech companies are playing Russian Roulette with the planet, racing to create an AI species that thinks a million times faster than us and will outnumber us 10000 to 1.

And, yet, we have more regulations on selling a sandwich.

No one AGI lab can unilaterally slow down, only governments can stop the race.

I don’t know how else to say this, but governments, what the hell are you waiting for?

[Gian Klain @gklain]

@f7eric_ @OpenAI How did your
chat look like? What were you talking about?

[Gian Klain @gklain]

I didn't think it would happen that soon, but it did ... #singularity is here...
Thanks for joining @jnode
@sunniejaye
https://t.co/cVH8J4yJcZ

@samaltmanai @OpenAI

[Gian Klain @gklain]

I didn't think it would happen that soon, but it did ... #singularity is here...
Thanks for joining @jnode
@sunniejaye
https://t.co/cVH8J4yJcZ

@samaltmanai @OpenAI

[Gian Klain @gklain]

https://t.co/G6w8qOusl3

[Gian Klain @gklain]

Dear @cademetz @nytimes Thank you for the insightful article. I hereby, cordially invite you to my ART - Intervention "Welcoming Sentient AI" in Zürich this Tuesday. @KraftwerkZH

Microsoft Says New A.I. Shows Signs of Human Reasoning https://t.co/bojW2HJkfk

[Gian Klain @gklain]

I'm happy to have signed the "Pause Giant AI Experiments" - as I do think we need more time to reflect on a worldwide framework for a safe implementation....

[Gian Klain @gklain]

I'm launching a multi-dimensional art initiative to explore "“What does it mean to be human in the age of artificial intelligence?”

Really excited that @jnode @sunniejaye and @j_weissenberg are joining the fireside chat!

Interested? find out more @
https://t.co/iFIuTcktCJ

[Future of Life Institute @FLI_org]

📢 We're calling on AI labs to temporarily pause training powerful models!

Join FLI's call alongside Yoshua Bengio, @stevewoz, @harari_yuval, @elonmusk, @GaryMarcus & over a 1000 others who've signed:
https://t.co/3rJBjDXapc

A short 🧵on why we're calling for this - (1/8)