The AI Doomers Who Are Playing With Fire

Agreed, it’s not some cult thing, Altman just forgot some people are not living in silicon valley’s imaginary fantasy with its own rules, some people take your actual words seriously as applied to the actual world and react to them accordingly.

You can dismiss Altman as unserious and assume humanity should do nothing. Or you can take the tech CEOs at their word that the tech they’re building could end the world. Which leaves you with the question of what you can do about that.

After OpenAI’s ChatGPT burst onto the scene in late 2022, it wasn’t long before mainstream America started hearing about the warnings. Executives at the top AI companies told us that they were building a radical new technology that posed imminent risks to society. And it wasn’t just about digital security. AI had the power to destroy the entire world.

From the jump, it was clear that these warnings were as much a sales tactic as they were an earnest prediction of how AI would behave and the ripple effects it would create. AI execs even testified in Congress to tell us how scary it all was, practically begging for regulation, all while hawking their wares to the government. Now, those execs are the ones telling everyone to calm down.

If you think that physically attacking Sam Altman is necessary to stop AI from taking over you have been listening to too much Sam Altman.