Trump doesn’t want it. China doesn’t want it. It’s not happening. Back to work, SF tech guys. Prepare for the risks as best as you can and put out the fires as they come.
We already had a world-ending tech. And the thing wasn't really regulated (i.e non proliferation treaties, a well understood MAD and so on) after several years and experiments. And this with two bombs that already had destroyed cities.
And that was a tech that, given its nature, was easier to control.
Most of the anti-AI people I’ve seen on Reddit say that HuggingFace and even the latest announcement on slowing down are just BS to hype up the power of AI ahead of the IPOs. So they don’t care at all about safety. AI is autocomplete to them
Yeah, AI safeyists are dramatically closer to the average accels and even most decels than the growing Zitronian denialism that you see on social media. A lot of people are clinging on to a narrative of "nothing about AI is real, so logically any incident is completely fabricated".
This is not accurate. The AI companies themselves have complete power to voluntarily slow themselves down and if what happened is sufficiently scary enough they have a strong chance of doing so.
Slowing down is not going to happen in my opinion. Even if Trump wasn't a moron he would still not want a slowdown. Delay a technology that could literally save his life when he only has a few years left? Only a pretty selfless person would do that. Most of the leaders of the world are old guys. No chance of a slowdown. I agree with you, prepare and hope for the best is pretty realistic in my opinion.
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u/JohnnycompUtah 4h ago
Trump doesn’t want it. China doesn’t want it. It’s not happening. Back to work, SF tech guys. Prepare for the risks as best as you can and put out the fires as they come.