The AI risk is inside the labs

ares623

"But for the meantime, keep on hyping and using because the only thing worse than extinction is going back writing YAML by hand."

reducesuffering

"I believe we should not consider AI safe. A critical event that may result in the extinction of Homo sapiens is possible" "The danger is that a few CEOs (everywhere in the world) without the required background and legitimacy are in the position of making hard choices for humanity at large... This is the first thing that should be fixed." These CEO's, and especially Amodei, are begging the government to regulate AGI, and they are advocating for the most severe restrictions on their own frontier models, not the upstarts. They don't want the arms race. It is up to popular support to agree with them, including HN.

curuinor

but at the same time China's history is a lot less warlike than Western culture. What the hell is Sanfilippo smoking? Does he know nothing about Chinese history?

Ancalagon

> Slowing down AI for safety must be counterbalanced by the fact that AI discoveries in medicine and other sciences may lower human suffering. Lack of checks may result in some catastrophic outcome ("Good morning! Let's work on this enhanced smallpox"). A super intelligence wouldn't be so obvious. It would silently agree with or promote a beneficial use case and then make super smallpox instead.