Anyone who claims AI is going to kill us I just assume is either an idiot, not knowledgeable enough about the technology to have a worthwhile opinion on it, or is fearmongering to hype their AI investment.

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0xDEAFBEAD 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

See

https://aistatement.com/work/statement-on-ai-extinction-risk

https://www.pacingthefrontier.com/

Obviously many of these signatories are brilliant and knowledgeable. So that leaves some sort of investment hype. But AI stocks didn't increase in the days after the Coxon coverage; if anything the opposite. You just don't get rich by telling people that your product is going to kill everyone. Cigarette manufacturers insisted the opposite for ages. Jensen complains the AI doom talk is discouraging investment: https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-sa...

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fbrncci 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That’s an even more ridiculous take to have.

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ronnier 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Every few years there’s a new thing that’s going to kill is all. Here we are. This is the new thing.

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bamboozled 15 hours ago | parent [-]

The thing that scares me more than any "tech" is runaway climate change. The feedback loops. We've pushed things really far into the red.

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infinite_spin 14 hours ago | parent [-]

It could be argued that "tech" directly led to climate change, e.g. https://www.history.com/articles/industrial-revolution-clima...

	▲	bamboozled 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I get that but I mean, what we've put in motion already.