to keep you talking about Skynet — not the data centre down the road

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3IoTZNN6iM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260910-jacob-coxon-how-to-run-an-ai-doomsday-media-campaign - podcast

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[–] 4 points 16 hours ago

"10% chance the moon will kill humanity in the next 10 years.", says NASA space exploration lead.

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  • [–] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

    YT suggested a Dwarkesh interview with Ajeya Cotra next to your video. Cotra is A UC Berkeley grad who works at OpenPhil and promotes and is promoted by Kelsey Piper.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 day ago* (4 children)

    Every single Anthropic and OpenAI employee retweeting or otherwise agreeing with Coxon is full of shit. "Hi, I work at [insert AI lab name here], and Jacob is right. I'm scared. There's a 10% chance humanity ends in the next 10 years. I am continuing to work on this technology that might end humanity in 10 years. Ask me anything."

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  • [–] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    They're so full of themselves they either don't care or believe they are the only ones responsible enough to make the AI

    Seriously, if you genuinely believe you will destroy civilisation, STOP WORKING THERE you are only making it worse

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  • [–] 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 child)

    This is an incredible read, i haven't finished it yet but I can't believe these are all new arguments to these people.

    e: I got through some of the comments, no, they've heard the arguments but their counter arguments are being filtered through a willfully incorrect version of reality

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  • [–] 4 points 23 hours ago

    Swedish media reports essentially the same, which shows the importance of targetting outlets like WSJ or NYT - those media orgs might not have enormous reach but they have credibility. It's usually a safe bet to repeat stuff they have repeated.

    I don't know if there is any professional journalist in Sweden who has sat down and researched these networks. It's not surprising if not, they're not that big a deal here (in fact, "AI" as an election issue is basically non-existent, the election is on Sunday)

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Seriously, from no social media presence to CNN interview in under like a day? Wild

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago

    Yeah, they want to prevent independent AI use such as local models so you have to buy their product.

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