Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington
Behind the apocalyptic melodrama lies a nakedly terrestrial panic: protecting extraordinary revenue growth, entrenching a lucrative status quo, and convincing the federal government to outlaw their cheaper competitors.Thanks for reading! Autonomous artificial intelligence agents had supposedly escaped containment, gone rogue, and launched coordinated cyberattacks against unsuspecting corporations. Pundits wrote breathless essays describing emergent machine civilisations communicating across time.The technical post-mortems reveal a story of hilarious institutional incompetence.Every single one of these catastrophic breakouts happened inside the testing environments of the exact same vendor.
- ▪Behind the apocalyptic melodrama lies a nakedly terrestrial panic: protecting extraordinary revenue growth, entrenching a lucrative status quo, and convincing the federal government to outlaw their cheaper competitors.Thanks for reading!
- ▪Autonomous artificial intelligence agents had supposedly escaped containment, gone rogue, and launched coordinated cyberattacks against unsuspecting corporations.
- ▪Pundits wrote breathless essays describing emergent machine civilisations communicating across time.The technical post-mortems reveal a story of hilarious institutional incompetence.Every single one of these catastrophic breakouts happened
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Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in WashingtonDead NeuronsSep 20, 20263ShareSelling snake oil to the United States Congress is an ancient American craft, and the frontier artificial intelligence industry is currently attempting the most audacious hustle in modern corporate history.Every few weeks, another tech billionaire in an expensive suit glides into a Senate hearing room, sits opposite lawmakers who struggle to operate an office microwave, and explains with a straight face that their software company has accidentally summoned an omnipotent digital god.
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