AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry
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Re: AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry
#2"Well you're all f***, good luck. I'll take my millions and go live on my micro farm"
Re: AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry
#3It sounds like a mental health crisis. So many people are experiencing them when interacting with AI.
Re: AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry
#4This has been discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46972496
Personally, I agree with the top comment there.
If you read the actual letter, it's very vague and uses a lot of flowery language.
Definitely not the sort of thing that raised alarm bells in my mind given how the letter was written.
Re: AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry
#5"Well you're all f***, good luck. I'll take my millions and go live on my micro farm"
Exactly. If he cared that much he could quit and live off of his millions trying to help mitigate the damage by informing the public of what is pending and ideas on how to push back.
Re: AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry
#6Seems to be the MO around here - create and profit off of horrors beyond our wildest imaginations with no accountability and conveniently disappear before shit hits the fan. Not before writing an op-ed though.
Re: AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry
#7It sounds like a mental health crisis. So many people are experiencing them when interacting with AI.
It definitely seems to induce a bit of mania (ignoring the obvious joke about AI hype)
Re: AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry
#8If good and bad both get amplified, I hope the equilibrium is maintained.
Re: AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry
#9Seems to be the MO around here - create and profit off of horrors beyond our wildest imaginations with no accountability and conveniently disappear before shit hits the fan. Not before writing an op-ed though.
I mean what do you actually propose?