Hawking's statement was made after the confirmation of the Higgs, and is still valid. A metastability vacuum event could be a problem (that's putting it lightly

Hawking's statement was made after the confirmation of the Higgs, and is still valid. A metastability vacuum event could be a problem (that's putting it lightly, hah) at high enough energies. It might have already happened, elsewhere. Eliezer and co. should be made fun of. They engage with journalists and lean into statements like this: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FKNtgZrGYwgsz3nHT/bankless-podcast-159-we-re-all-gonna-die-with-eliezer https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FKNtgZrGYwgsz3nHT/bankless-p... They're absolutely hysterical. Convenient for them, and for the companies, the hysteria is to their benefit. More money to fund the MIRI for Yudowsky, and regulatory capture for the companies who believe they're ahead if you can convince some dementia-ridden Sentor to pass the bill regulating some vague notion of "AI safety." There's some people in these companies who understand that they have no moat, and that you can't make GPUs illegal, as demonstrated by the most recent story about the leaked google post, and that people can outperform their models in an hour with a LoRA on a workstation laptop for a given task, that the cat is out of the bag. But, with the hysteria of the media, where interns straight out of the shithole of liberal arts believe that a post on reddit or twitter where someone was slighted at the dinner table is breaking news, we're now in this situation where we have calls for regulation for something people simply don't understand, no thanks to the useless media.