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Turns out Altman is a lab-leak covid truther, calls virus 'synthetic' according to Spectator piece on AI risk. (archive.is)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sam Altman, the recently fired (and rehired) chief executive of Open AI, was asked earlier this year by his fellow tech billionaire Patrick Collison what he thought of the risks of synthetic biology. ‘I would like to not have another synthetic pathogen cause a global pandemic. I think we can all agree that wasn’t a great experience,’ he replied. ‘Wasn’t that bad compared to what it could have been, but I’m surprised there has not been more global coordination and I think we should have more of that.’

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (4 children)

why are the comments on this post such a disaster. who are these people

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

keyword seeking fuckwits maybe

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

This was just on All.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

fuck, I stop looking for one Thanksgiving and this happens

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

My thanksgiving was drama-free (blurring the distinction between pleasant and boring) and just now finding what was going down here. 😭

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

it has certainly brought the dickheads out

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Gotta admit I’m checking back here every couple of hours or so just out of morbid curiosity