I feel like there is a concerted effort to get people to conflate this stupid "hurr durr AI is skynet and it's gonna take over the nukes and kill everyone" bullshit with the actual, very real, issues people have with AI.

They want people to think of this type of sci-fi alarmist shit when they hear about people being against AI, rather than the real shit.

Utter nonsense.

I sincerely doubt that. So much critical infrastructure is running on antiquated hardware and requires human involvement, not just supervision.

How is AI supposed to function when it kills the data center power grid people making sure the data center hosting it runs smoothly?

There's not a chance of an awakened ai genocide happening in the next 20 years. And anything short of a genocidal awakening will most definitely not kill all humans.

AI doomers are pro AI.

It's all just marketing. The AI infinite money circle-jerk only works for as long as the tech companies can keep investors onboard, and not asking for their money back. So they have to generate hype around what AI can do, even if it can't (or maybe even ever)

We're days away from CEOs and marketers and other grifters posting shit like "my company's rogue AI took over all of the devices in my house and threatened me!" just to keep people interested.

They know their audience.

Is he talking about the environmental impact? Or is he just a fucking moron?

so i guess tech is just a death cult now? that’s cool

Through climate collapse, maybe. "AI" isn't going to go skynet no matter what anyone says, but particularly not the assholes selling it to you.

Evan Hubinger gets paid to promote AI for the investors is all I hear. AI has to be the most over-hyped thing I have ever seen in my life.

I literally have no fucking idea what some of the loons are even talking about on LinkedIn that went AI nuts.

Like one thing I read is that Musk or someone said that everyone will be rich enough to not work because of all the revenue or something? Like revenue from where? Like literally where? Let's say it's even good enough to unemploy everyone on Earth...where the fuck is your revenue coming from? Nobody has fucking jobs. Even if you get UBI, why would people send their government checks off to an AI company instead of like...buy food?

It just strikes me that they've all disappeared up their own assholes or something.

"My invention might cause the extinction of the species. But before that happens, I need another yacht."

There's a 100% chance climate change will kill all humans if we don't stop increasing the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere (yes we are still increasing our CO2 output, staying at the same level would be bad already but we can't even stop increasing)

Is the reason the number is so low that we're favored to kill ourselves off by climate change or nuclear war within 10 years, so only 10% chance left for ai to complete the task?

AI told me there's a 95% chance that this researcher is kinda dumb

Marketing.

How'd you come up with that number?

Only by destroying the world economy from a financial bubble, the likes of which we have never seen

Money is only how they keep score.

The problem is we don't really have a good word for the members of the Nerd reich. The nazis thought they were the master race.

These guys are dooming humanity for... bragging rights???? I mean WTF?

Malignant Hubristic Megalomaniacal?

I can hear Ed Zitron laughing hysterically all the way over here in Europe. What a load of BS.

Yeah and we've had the ability to kill everyone for at least 40 years. AI is doing what the nuclear arsenals couldn't accomplish. This is just more marketing, "oh ho ho woopsies we accidentally made Ultron\Skynet\Your Overly Aggressive MIL! The world could end! Look at how capable our product is!"

you betcha.

It's always about the money. I don't believe they care about anything else.

Well, Yudkowsky says that there's a 100% that it will kill all of us.

For a chance at power. People don't seem to get where the power is. Money is a resource, like land or gold, like trading favours or your commands being followed by your slave workforce. These people are beyond money as the primary means to power, it's just one of many resources for them. Measuring power in money, as we too often do, grossly obfuscates how all this shit works. It isn't as simple as who has more cash. But if you're poor or working class, money is the most significant means to power, the most obvious, and the most sought.

Teach it to get rid of ai companies, ai users, and then itself instead.

This is a threat.

Don't threaten me with a good time.