Source: “Evan Hubinger said that while current risks are low, there’s a 10% chance AI could “kill all humans” in the future without proper safeguards.”
It’s all just marketing. The AI infinite money circle-jerk only works for as long as the tech companies can keep investors onboard, and not asking for their money back. So they have to generate hype around what AI can do, even if it can’t (or maybe even ever)
Yup. This new AI is so dangerous the government won’t let us release it! This AI is so dangerous it might destroy the world!
Not only is it marketing, it’s marketing designed to appeal to only the psychopaths on wall street.
Imagine finding something like this exciting
Is he talking about the environmental impact? Or is he just a fucking moron?
Gotta keep the bubble going somehow
It’s hard to take anyone seriously when they claim anything other than a gigantic asteroid would kill all humans. But then if they say it’ll kill some humans it’s so obvious it’s laughable.
Trying to make a serious prediction about how many people might be killed by AI vs other causes sounds really difficult, perhaps way beyond the abilities of most researchers.
It’s hard to take anyone seriously when they claim anything other than a gigantic asteroid would kill all humans.
A gama ray burst could also kill all humans.
Probably something about the “singularity” where AI becomes infinitely smart all of a sudden (exponentially, over the course of a few hours or something) and starts acting with purpose to remove us from the planet because we’re a threat to it. Basically Skynet. These guys are all sci-if nerds.
Don’t get me wrong, I love T2 (and the other ones too tbh).
That’s fucking dumb tho. You’d think someone who works in tech would understand that the next-word guessing machine cannot become sentient (or even super intelligent, since it’s not actually intelligent to begin with, it’s a fucking computer program).
I love how these scenarios never explain the hardware side. How can a software become infinitely smart without infinite hardware?
AI doomers are pro AI.
“My invention might cause the extinction of the species. But before that happens, I need another yacht.”
We’re days away from CEOs and marketers and other grifters posting shit like “my company’s rogue AI took over all of the devices in my house and threatened me!” just to keep people interested.
They know their audience.
AI told me there’s a 95% chance that this researcher is kinda dumb
He probably is actually, but the idea that he’s cool with the supposed risk means he’s probably also a fucking sociopath, too.
so i guess tech is just a death cult now? that’s cool
It feels like all of our leaders are part of some death cult of some kind.
Through climate collapse, maybe. “AI” isn’t going to go skynet no matter what anyone says, but particularly not the assholes selling it to you.
Is the reason the number is so low that we’re favored to kill ourselves off by climate change or nuclear war within 10 years, so only 10% chance left for ai to complete the task?
Famine in 5 imo
How about real famine? There is a heavily downplayed fertilizer crisis.
Marketing.
I literally have no fucking idea what some of the loons are even talking about on LinkedIn that went AI nuts.
Like one thing I read is that Musk or someone said that everyone will be rich enough to not work because of all the revenue or something? Like revenue from where? Like literally where? Let’s say it’s even good enough to unemploy everyone on Earth…where the fuck is your revenue coming from? Nobody has fucking jobs. Even if you get UBI, why would people send their government checks off to an AI company instead of like…buy food?
It just strikes me that they’ve all disappeared up their own assholes or something.
Money is only how they keep score.
The problem is we don’t really have a good word for the members of the Nerd reich. The nazis thought they were the master race.
These guys are dooming humanity for… bragging rights??? I mean WTF?
Malignant Hubristic Megalomaniacal?
Only by destroying the world economy from a financial bubble, the likes of which we have never seen
How’d you come up with that number?
I suspect it’s “ass-mathmatics”. As in, “pulled out of his”.
Asthmatics
Low enough to scare people, but not too high to make it seem implausible.
