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AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC (www.bbc.com)
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I'm not an AI techie and I'm not well educated on LLMs/AI in general. The issue I'm having is the dichotomy between how people talk about it. I've heard completely opposite ends of the spectrum. From AI is quickly becoming advanced enough to threaten human society, all the way to its a glorified dictionary/search engine that can't really do much of anything. I know Lemmy has a steep anti-AI slant. But, can someone talk about this in a way I can wrap my head around why the divide seems so big?

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Or if the military put an LLM in charge of nuclear weapons. But surely nobody would be stupid enough to do that!

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    "And that's why today I'm signing into law the Trump Nuclear Act. Some say it's the greatest law of all time. Very smart people, even smarter AI. Elon tells me this will save billions, and I'm going to increase my dividend, let's call it the 'Nucular Peace Dividend' to honor Bush, I don't remember which one used to say 'Nucular', but I always liked that guy, and it made me think up how to say Chayyyyna.

    CNN get out!"

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