At least 350 AI experts have signed a 22-word statement warning of the technology’s existential risks. Backed by figures including Sam Altman, whose company created ChatGPT, it reads: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”
@AshKarr stuff like this is extremely silly and performative given we're actually facing an actual possible extinction event due to climate change
@mehluv yeah I tend to agree, except that these are a whole bunch AI guys who are raising the red flag. I wonder why?
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I remember reading a very nice article about a professor, an expert in LLMs, and her frustration at them being called AI, and her fundamental judgment of them was that investors and tech bros were imagining a ghost in the machine.
@mehluv ah! ok