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The author says: > Do the signatories believe that existing AI systems or their immediate successors might wipe us all out? If they do, then the industry leade
by SpicyLemonZest 3y ago
The author says:
> Do the signatories believe that existing AI systems or their immediate successors might wipe us all out? If they do, then the industry leaders signing this statement should immediately shut down their data centres and hand everything over to national governments. The researchers should stop trying to make existing AI systems safe, and instead call for their elimination.
But a different set of people called for a halt to AI research two months ago, and his response then (https://aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/a-misleading-open-letter-about-sci https://aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/a-misleading-open-letter-a...) was that these concerns are "fever dreams" and we should disregard them in favor of "serious policy debates".
It seems like there's a self-reinforcing system here, where any evidence or argument in favor of existential risks from AI can be dismissed out of hand.
- danaris 3y agoThe author is not saying "AI systems should be shut down, because they might wipe us out". He is saying "if those people genuinely believed what they were saying, they should logically shut down their own AI systems." His position is consistent and clear: the supposed threat from AI is based in sci-fi and motivated reasoning. Indeed, even those who are motivated to spread the idea of that threat do not appear to genuinely believe it—either that, or they believe that their own right to continue to do whatever they can to maximize their profits outweighs it.