a former employee coming out as saying AI could 100 percent eventually kill humans and then opening instagram to see everyone using chatgpt to see “what we’d look like in the 80s”
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.
If you are a lab researcher, I urge you to consider what the next few years will actually feel like. Do you want to kick off a superintelligent RL run without a rigorous understanding of its mind? Should you put your head down because “it’s happening anyway” - or take this moment to call for different conditions?
btw it’s weird as fuck when you guys downplay israel’s genocide and turn it into a joke by calling things spiritually israeli or calling people you don’t like israeli