The case for AI doom isn't convincing
The case for AI doom isn't very convincingI read Eliezer Yudkowsky's new book, "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies."Timothy B. LeeSep 25, 202522716623ShareA striking thing about the AI industry is how many insiders believe AI could pose an existential risk to humanity.Just last week, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei described himself as “relatively an optimist” about AI. In a new book with co-author Nate Soares, Yudkowsky doesn’t mince words: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.
- ▪The case for AI doom isn't very convincingI read Eliezer Yudkowsky's new book, "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies."Timothy B.
- ▪LeeSep 25, 202522716623ShareA striking thing about the AI industry is how many insiders believe AI could pose an existential risk to humanity.Just last week, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei described himself as “relatively an optimist” about AI.
- ▪In a new book with co-author Nate Soares, Yudkowsky doesn’t mince words: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.
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The case for AI doom isn't very convincingI read Eliezer Yudkowsky's new book, "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies."Timothy B. LeeSep 25, 202522716623ShareA striking thing about the AI industry is how many insiders believe AI could pose an existential risk to humanity.Just last week, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei described himself as “relatively an optimist” about AI. But he said there was a “25 percent chance that things go really really badly.” Among the risks Amodei worries about: “the autonomous danger of the model.”In a 2023 interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was blunter, stating that the worst-case scenario was “lights out for all of us.”No one has done more to raise these concerns than rationalist gadfly Eliezer Yudkowsky.
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