As grounded as this article comes across I can’t help but find this whole situation reckless and worrying. There is essentially nothing us private citizens can do while these companies develop super machine capabilities that if they were to slip into the wrong hands could cause massive real world problems. They’re moving fast and breaking things and the only defense we have is paying them money in the hopes that the dumbed down versions fix our code faster than bad actors capabilities can grow. It’s a frustrating situation that where we’re just expected to marvel and forgive them for their transgressions. The kicker is we also know their end game is leaving the vast majority of us without work. As cool and futuristic as this stuff is, it’s such a frustrating time dealing with all of it

i think you need to engage seriously with the arguments they (or at least Anthropic) make for why they are building it — they feel that since it now possible, it will be built and they want to guide it in a positive direction rather than leave a vacuum for bad actors