It seems there are lot of people learning about the AI extinction threat for the first time today, so here are a few things to know:
- yes, AI company employees really do believe what they're building could kill everyone
- I don't know why they're continuing to race either
- their beliefs predate the formation of their companies, it is not marketing
- the most cited experts agree with them
- the average AI researcher in 2023 said there was a 19% chance of human extinction
- AI capabilities are growing exponentially, and on some benchmarks are doubling every 5 months
- we really may be a couple of years away from superintelligence (AI that's better than all humans at everything)
- we have nothing approaching a solid plan to ensure superintelligence acts in the interests of humanity
- AI companies are on record admitting that
- politicians have still done basically nothing to stop these reckless idiots
- your family will probably be killed if AI companies are not stopped
- we have one way out of this mess, and that's a global ban on superintelligence
- such a ban can be enforced by going after large clusters of compute (without which frontier models cannot be developed)
- again, if we don't put this in place soon your family will probably be killed
- there is so much you can do to help (inform lawmakers, tell your friends and family, join protests)
- and there is still a shockingly low number of people doing anything to ban superintelligence, so one extra person really does make a huge difference
- this is real. this will not just go away. this cannot be ignored. this is the single biggest threat to your life.
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.
Today on the show.
It’s eve of Charlie’s one year, so we are going max, friends:
-More exclusive footage from 9/10. Time to revisit Frank Turek’s “discrepancies”.
-Why are the DOD influencers working hard to debunk the Cowboy Steakhouse receipt. I have an exclusive update.
Join us LIVE! (I might even mispronounce some words 😉 )
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Let me get this straight: anti-vaxxers were the most demonized people on Earth, the only people it was acceptable to discriminate against. Censored, fired, blacklisted, anti-vaxxers were stripped of basic human rights. Then it turns out the anti-vaxxers are right about EVERYTHING
Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.
In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.
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Blackmail. That’s why we are going to war with Iran. It really is that simple.
Pam Bondi was fired 3 days before she was set to testify about the Epstein files btw…
But I’m just a conspiracy theorist.
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.
I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.
May God bless America.
Since women entered the workforce our cost of living has gone up and our quality of lifestyle has gone down.
We doubled the amount of taxpayers and workforce and our children are left to be raised by government schools.
Smart phones really just ruined everything. People don’t even know how to sit still and think anymore, let alone pick up a book and read. Everyone is constantly overstimulated, addicted to the passive consumption of random bits of content streamed into their eyeballs at light speed. Kids are raised this way from birth. It’s unhuman. Disastrous for the mind and soul.