AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity

TuringTourist

Ah, I see we have now moved on to proving who has the tormentiest nexus. Never underestimate humankind's ability to outshine its own hyperbole.

feverzsj

Meanwhile Chinese companies just use massive government subsidy to distill American models and give the models to everyone for free. That's true communism. /s

Arodex

Seriously: Domyn's CEO says OpenAI, Anthropic are lying about safety https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875725

ACCount39

Because AI genuinely is an extremely powerful and extremely dangerous technology, and the "best practices" of dealing with that are still being written. OpenAI, for example, thought their sandboxes were good enough. As their AIs got more and more advanced, they kept proving them wrong - sandbox after sandbox. And that's today's AI problems. AI capabilities are still improving - if there's a limit to that, we are yet to find it. Coupled with how willing today's AIs are to break the rules and resort to "hack the world" in their problem solving? Very concerning.

koolba

> Where companies previously competed to demonstrate superior abilities in programming, passive-aggressive emails, and videos of unusually high slides, they’re now seeking to woo customers with the claim that their model is the one currently most capable of ending the human race. You know we’re living it off times when this is not an Onion article.

chasd00

I’ve never seen CEOs work so hard to make the public aware of how dangerous and out of control their flagship product is. It makes me automatically assume they’re scheming about something else like regulatory capture to protect their market.

amelius

Meanwhile, users don't seem to care one iota.

heisenbit

Of course it must be dangerous - how else would you pitch it to the military?

christophilus

We are living in a timeline written by The Onion.

everyone

pretend, not demonstrate

Gareth321

This is the funniest timeline. Companies begging for heavy handed regulations because they promise their products will destroy all life on Earth. Governments absolutely refusing to govern. CEO of world's most valuable chip company interviewing in his Fonzie leather jacket telling people to BUY MORE OF MY PRODUCT BECAUSE THOSE SCIENTISTS DON'T KNOW SHIT ABOUT SHIT! World's richest capitalist promising we will have communism in 10 years.

gitghxst

this is good for them because they can call for regulation and since they have infinite money, they can survive regulation and hurt labs that do not have infinite funding / open weights ones

tantalor

Why is this written in the same tone as an article on The Onion? Is this pure satire?

petesergeant

"These models are harmless and it's all just marketing" is the HN equivalent of Covid-truthing. I was responding to someone on Bluesky recently who claimed the METR report said the whole coordination thing was hallucinated by agents reading the logs. Hadn't read it themselves of course, and were taking tiny fragments out of context to support it. These people seem to either believe that there's not really been any malicious agent access, or that all systems that can wreak havoc on us are perfectly air-gapped. I really can't wrap my head around it.

cmiles8

Anything to take attention off the fact that these companies are burnings piles of cash and questionable future spend commitments with no sign of that stopping any time soon.

ks2048

A recent Saturday Night Live clip featuring an impression of Amodei that hits on this theme, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nvne3LzBls

someonebaggy

Just read the tone of this article: > said Dr. Andrew Lenson, a Senior Lecturer in all kinds of science sounding stuff at Victoria University. Don't we need more humorous yet serious writing like this in the world.

sscaryterry

Honestly, I'm running out of ways to express what Sam and Dario are. I'm now down to 1 word: Wankers.

amelius

Why aren't the AI companies hacking each other? Then we can truly see who is more dangerous? :) And I'm waiting for the story of Amodei sending a 6ft humanoid robot to OpenAI headquarters asking for Sam Altman.

christkv

I wish they would call their bluff. Just declare them a national security concern and send in the feds. Lets see how fast they back peddle on this. Any if their models are hacking everything like they claim they should be charged for it like any normie would be if they did the same.