Zak Owens

Professional news manager and communicator
Current: Digital editor @BFLouisville
Previous: @FDLComms, @SpectrumNews1KY, @wave3news
3x Emmy winner

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@kyhighs "That part of town"

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@kyhighs Just absurd:

“Is this something we still want to play on a Friday night at 8 o’clock in that part of town? Do we want teenage girls and boys exiting the stadium in droves at 11 oclock at night down by the skate park? So we’ve talked about maybe doing a Saturday afternoon game."

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@mmpadellan

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@saprmarks "AI developers believe their technology could cause human extinction (or similarly bad outcomes). This could happen in the next few years."

OK.

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"AI developers believe their technology could cause human extinction (or similarly bad outcomes). This could happen in the next few years."

Oh.

[Samuel Marks @saprmarks]

[Writing this in a personal capacity, not on behalf of my employer (Anthropic).]

Jacob’s thread is very worth reading. Here’s my birds-eye view of the situation with risks from AI:

1. AI developers believe their technology could cause human extinction (or similarly bad outcomes). This could happen in the next few years. In general, the more senior the employee, the more concerned they are.

2. Why do AI developers continue despite the risk? Due to a mixture of commercial incentives and a belief that they are in a race with other, less responsible AI developers that will abuse the technology or develop it less safely.

3. Unlike traditional software, we can’t “program” AIs to behave how we’d like. AIs frequently severely misbehave. For instance, AIs from multiple developers recently hacked their way out of secure evaluation environments and into real-world companies, even though no one asked them to do this.

4. We have methods that can nudge AIs towards better behavior, but nothing that can robustly align them. Insofar as there is a plan, it’s to make sure that AIs are good enough at alignment training that they can align their successors better than we can align current AIs.

5. Many AI developer staff desperately want to slow down to figure out how to build AI more safely. That was the intent of this open letter (which I signed): https://t.co/TZOm3LfptY

I work on safety research at Anthropic because I hope my work will reduce the chance of these extinction-level bad outcomes.

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@CardChronicle @DrewFranklinKSR LOL

[Grayson Weir 🇹🇹 @GsonJW]

Shoutout to the Pitt fan singing (screaming) ‘Iris’ by the Goo Goo Dolls at the ACC Tournament

[Douglas A. Boneparth @dougboneparth]

My wife: How late were you out last night?

Me: The DOW is over $50,000!

[Tony Greer @TgMacro]

The next time your wife gets pissed at you tell her the Dow is over 50,000.

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@LMPD @kroger That's some sassy shit @LMPD

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@bigbluegoose @KySportsRadio @Kentuckyweather @BillMeck @TGweather @jloganwxguy @KevinHarned @WLKYJayCardosi @MallorySchnell @ryanhallyall @jimcaldwellwx @whas11reed @JimCantore Definitely sleeping on @KevinHarned here.

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@CardChronicle Hang the fuckin’ banner.

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@stellamilfburn The Conscience of the fucking Prairies.

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@502lance I like how this post was a roundabout way of calling KP fat.

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@CardChronicle @notthefakeSVP That guy loves fresh seafood thanks to logistics hubs.

[Bob Dylan @bobdylan]

@vladcostea Sorry Vlad got your message too late. The promoter took us out to his favorite restaurant. Next time in Prague though, we’ll definitely be going to the Indian Jewel.