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Anthropic researcher says more than 10% chance AI "could kill all humans"

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Re: Anthropic researcher says more than 10% chance AI "could kill all humans"

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Post by roarcher »

dist-epoch wrote: post #8

It's all marketing. Don't fall for it, it's the age old strategy "our product is extremely dangerous, so fear us". Like the tobacco companies saying all the time "our cigarettes are so dangerous, they cause cancer". Or like Purdue Pharma saying "do not use fentanyl, it's so dangerous, it kills thousands of people every year". They try to generate fear in their products, to shock investors into buying their stock.

I enjoy HN's brand of cynicism as much as the next guy, but this is ridiculous. Tobacco companies say that because governments require them to. They are not putting photos of diseased lungs on their cartons to "shock investors into buying their stock", whatever the hell that even means.

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dist-epoch wrote: post #8

It's all marketing. Don't fall for it, it's the age old strategy "our product is extremely dangerous, so fear us". Like the tobacco companies saying all the time "our cigarettes are so dangerous, they cause cancer". Or like Purdue Pharma saying "do not use fentanyl, it's so dangerous, it kills thousands of people every year". They try to generate fear in their products, to shock investors into buying their stock.

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Re: Anthropic researcher says more than 10% chance AI "could kill all humans"

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Post by jtolds »

hunterpayne wrote: post #7

This is the most perverse marketing campaign in history. "Our product might wipe out all of human civilization". It is said that heavily regulated industries earn that regulation. Seems like the LLM folks really want that regulation.

How is it marketing if it's from someone who just quit in objection?

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Post by animan »

mstank wrote: post #13

I’ve yet to see a rational argument for how we go from super intelligent LLMs to human extinction or extermination. I understand that some smart people are worried about it. I just haven’t come across a believable or understandable argument.

Hack s/huggingface/nuclear codes to s/steal test answers/launch nukes

Re: Anthropic researcher says more than 10% chance AI "could kill all humans"

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Post by animan »

mstank wrote: post #13

I’ve yet to see a rational argument for how we go from super intelligent LLMs to human extinction or extermination. I understand that some smart people are worried about it. I just haven’t come across a believable or understandable argument.

Not directly but enable a rouge lab to make the next COVID but lethal

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Post by karmakurtisaani »

mstank wrote: post #13

I’ve yet to see a rational argument for how we go from super intelligent LLMs to human extinction or extermination. I understand that some smart people are worried about it. I just haven’t come across a believable or understandable argument.

What I could see is that the social disruption already started by social media is only going to accelerate due to AI. Misinformation is now more convincing and easier to produce than ever before. That could lead to a catastrophe down the line.

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Post by smalltorch »

dist-epoch wrote: post #8

It's all marketing. Don't fall for it, it's the age old strategy "our product is extremely dangerous, so fear us". Like the tobacco companies saying all the time "our cigarettes are so dangerous, they cause cancer". Or like Purdue Pharma saying "do not use fentanyl, it's so dangerous, it kills thousands of people every year". They try to generate fear in their products, to shock investors into buying their stock.

What even is the marketing strategy though? Generate a buzz headline so people engage and speak about the company? Isn't commenting falling for it?

Posts here with no activity can't climb gravity without engagement.

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Post by thewhitetulip »

Skyy93 wrote: post #9
benenrjdnz wrote: post #3

Probably for the best. Humanity had a good run, but this is no longer our civilization. Your best course of action is to start ripping the copper out of the walls.

Why the doomerism? In general humanity is living its best life compared to nearly every other step in time.

So far. With AI concentrating power and intelligence at the hands of handful frontier labs who are allowed to get away with IP infringement or literally hacking other companies or spamming wiki sites... Then the future is doomerism.

People are losing jobs left and right due to AI and as models get intelligent it'll get tougher (even for AI devouts. Because if AI can do 10 ppls job then jobs will be decimated)

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