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I resigned from Anthropic today

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Re: I resigned from Anthropic today

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He resigned and now what? There are thousands willing to do his role, and many labs are competing in that race. His resignation and his statement doesn't do anything but buy him attention which is what all this post about in my opinion.

It seems that, at the very least, he's giving substantial resonance to the issue.

Re: I resigned from Anthropic today

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post #12

He resigned and now what? There are thousands willing to do his role, and many labs are competing in that race. His resignation and his statement doesn't do anything but buy him attention which is what all this post about in my opinion.

Awareness and morality I suppose. Which generally doesn't matter in the capitalist AI race.

Re: I resigned from Anthropic today

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Here's a WSJ article about this resignation, https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-researcher-quits-over-... ( "Anthropic Researcher Quits Over ‘Out-of-Control’ AI Fears" )

Shows that no one is immune from the marketing BS of these companies.

whistleblowing as an advertisement. It's like those "news articles" about how cool and dangerous gas station ketamine is, and how it's totally going to get banned, and you better not buy any gas station k because it's so cool and powerful.

Re: I resigned from Anthropic today

#25

Just wait till self improving AI are focused on the problems of social scoring and political party empowerment / entrenchment. I doubt the focus is OpenAI and Anthropic looking at each other. I suspect they’re racing BRIC.

Have you seen Colossus: The Forbin Project?

No but it’s on my radar now, thanks. Apparently it’s got some appreciation from the MST3K folks too.

https://mst3k.fandom.com/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project_(...

Re: I resigned from Anthropic today

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post #12

He resigned and now what? There are thousands willing to do his role, and many labs are competing in that race. His resignation and his statement doesn't do anything but buy him attention which is what all this post about in my opinion.

Even if others won't act right, that doesn't mean you have no responsibility to act right. I think his premise is flawed - the idea that we will get an actual intelligence out of the slop machine that is LLMs is laughable - but if you grant the premise that this is dangerous research which could kill us all, you have a moral imperative to not participate.

Re: I resigned from Anthropic today

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post #12

He resigned and now what? There are thousands willing to do his role, and many labs are competing in that race. His resignation and his statement doesn't do anything but buy him attention which is what all this post about in my opinion.

It buys attention for the issue. Many people (see other comments in this very post) refuse to believe these things.

And by resigning he no longer has to feel personally guilty for what happens.

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