Politicians to Humanity: Drop Dead
Some of the biggest names in AI alarmed the country over the weekend with full catastrophe scenarios that can unfold if AI continues its unrestricted and light-speed pace of development. Altman even said that the current safety environment is factoring into the company’s decision to delay its long-awaited IPO until next year. Some of the fears that Amodei laid out in the article have been shared by the public for some time now.
- ▪Some of the biggest names in AI alarmed the country over the weekend with full catastrophe scenarios that can unfold if AI continues its unrestricted and light-speed pace of development.
- ▪Altman even said that the current safety environment is factoring into the company’s decision to delay its long-awaited IPO until next year.
- ▪Some of the fears that Amodei laid out in the article have been shared by the public for some time now.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 30 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Big AI to Humanity: Drop Dead — Matthewbutterick
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Some of the biggest names in AI alarmed the country over the weekend with full catastrophe scenarios that can unfold if AI continues its unrestricted and light-speed pace of development. On Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay warning against risks like bioterrorism and “serious economic disruption” that come with AI development and suggesting that the industry should slow down “the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models.” His essay came just days after his company began receiving intense backlash after a former Anthropic employee alarmed the internet with claims that “the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the…
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