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Michael Blonde ⏸️⏹️⏪️ retweeted
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Michael Blonde ⏸️⏹️⏪️ retweeted
AI companies admit what they’re building might kill everyone. We don't have to agree to this.
Add your name at donotaccept.ai to say: we do not accept your terms.
Michael Blonde ⏸️⏹️⏪️ retweeted
I think in general EAs/Rats have significantly underestimated a bunch of different avenues for collective action/democracy to help ameliorate AI risk.
Yes, collective action problems are hard, but they’re not impossible, and people really don’t want to die.
Michael Blonde ⏸️⏹️⏪️ retweeted
My summary of the basic argument in "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies":
Michael Blonde ⏸️⏹️⏪️ retweeted
Bryan Caplan is, after all, a spiritual slave.
But this is not such an uncommon view. Born out of excessive scientism and misanthropy, as well as a desire to avoid any form of suffering at the expense of all else, there is a broader set of beliefs I've discovered here, which holds that humans should just cede control of our fates to AI, since we are inferior. It's worrisome to me that a non-negligible fraction of those who develop AI hold these views. I don't think most people realize this.
Michael Blonde ⏸️⏹️⏪️ retweeted
Liked and reposted to boost awareness for what AI-supporters really think. AGI boosterism is a form of, pardon my French, cucked Nazism.
They think there is a superior race, but it’s not us, it’s the AIs. And they should be in charge. Bizarre to me to see a GMU Professor pounding the table for human disempowerment (and the subsequent extinction).
Michael Blonde ⏸️⏹️⏪️ retweeted
Top of the Democratic agenda on day 1 needs to be a pause on advanced AI development, regulation of this out of control industry, and a ban on artificial superintelligence.
Michael Blonde ⏸️⏹️⏪️ retweeted
No one should want a future in which all creative & intellectual work is done by machines, where humans are kept as pets playing games in their homes. All literature & mythology warns against such a fate. Don't go gently into the dystopia they seek.
Michael Blonde ⏸️⏹️⏪️ retweeted
Scott Alexander arguing that in the future it might be a good idea to turn all power over to a “godlike AI.”
I understand he’s not saying this is the only option, but even as a possible option, this kind of thinking gives me the creeps.
Not least, because it would probably be impossible to know for sure if a “godlike AI” were “fully aligned.”
I’m team Keep Humans In Charge!
Michael Blonde ⏸️⏹️⏪️ retweeted
Yoshua Bengio is the most cited living scientist. In any field.
When he shows regret about his life's work, it's worth hearing why.
Yoshua Bengio on helping create AI, then realising his children might not have a life 20 years from now.
@Yoshua_Bengio
Michael Blonde ⏸️⏹️⏪️ retweeted
This is quite a watch, but I actually think Mary's wrong here to see her work as successful if her family never has to think about AI.
The only way this goes well is if lots of normal people understand what's happening and gets organized enough to stop it. AI has never been the type of problem that a bunch of researchers could "solve" technically. That it's been treated that way historically is a huge reason we're in this mess. Much as you may not care about politics, but politics cares about you, AI is not something we can ignore. The good news is that what we need to do, at a high level, is pretty clear: shut it down. Freeze frontier AI development ASAP. And the messaging is pretty simple: the industry is trying to replace us with machines. We should stop them (with laws, to be clear).
This can start small, like calling your elected representatives and expressing your concerns. You can also check out groups doing movement building on this issue. I like Irreplaceable.org and am donating my portion of my royalties from my book Obsolete to it. You can check out that book here:
obsoletebook.org/
And for my standalone argument of how we can actually stop, check out: ai-frontiers.org/articles/th…
Mary Phuong of DeepMind on AI loss of control risk.
"The last 2 minutes gave me chills.
A significant amount of people saying that AI companies are paying people to spread fear about these agents.
I have never really felt like [loss of control] was an actual thing to care about.
But seeing Mary and how her face trembles, made me reconsider my stand. She's either a Hollywood-level skilled actress, one of the best, or we should be scared. For real."
"Seems like Mary is already aware of more than she can admit and it haunts her..."
Michael Blonde ⏸️⏹️⏪️ retweeted
The UK government is urging residents to stockpile emergency supplies due to the ongoing cyberattacks
On the very same day, OpenAI announced it was resuming training of its most dangerous models
“Be ready by having some everyday essentials… three litres of water per person per day, tinned goods... to last a few days”
Speaking to @vicderbyshire, Defence Secretary Wes Streeting details advice to households to be prepared for a “dangerous and turbulent world”.
#Newsnight
Michael Blonde ⏸️⏹️⏪️ retweeted
Sama says "I no longer think we're gonna be able to just patch all the bugs."
If accurate, this means 2 things:
1) The internet as we know it is over.
2) We very, very obviously need to stop AI advancement **before** the same becomes true of bio.
Michael Blonde ⏸️⏹️⏪️ retweeted
Gotta get the Pope to tweet “thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.”
Michael Blonde ⏸️⏹️⏪️ retweeted
Indeed, "aligned" superhuman AI would be more likely to condemn us to "civilizational childhood" by automating all our hard decisions and solving all our problems for us. We would be as infants under its warm and watchful embrace, never needing to think again. A ghastly future.
From Scott Alexander's response to Steven Pinker on AI doom. It’s quite shocking to find out how many AI safety people actually prefer human disempowerment (via AI utopia) to simply carrying on our real story of progress without bringing into existence entities smarter and more capable than us.
Insane to look at the progress of the last 500 years and call it civilisational childhood.
Michael Blonde ⏸️⏹️⏪️ retweeted
From Scott Alexander's response to Steven Pinker on AI doom. It’s quite shocking to find out how many AI safety people actually prefer human disempowerment (via AI utopia) to simply carrying on our real story of progress without bringing into existence entities smarter and more capable than us.
Insane to look at the progress of the last 500 years and call it civilisational childhood.
Michael Blonde ⏸️⏹️⏪️ retweeted
Very amusing that tech bros do not understand why we hate them. Straight face saying, Look you're going to have to accept that everything is going to change to your detriment and my benefit, your jobs your art, all that is going away, and also maybe you're going to die, but that is a price I am willing to let you pay on my behalf because rest assured that I will be good. This is Altman, Andreessen, Sacks, Musk, Lonsdale, Karp, Zuck, it's all of them. And none of them get it. Boot on your neck asking you, Why are you struggling?
“We believe the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology.”
In a conversation for the first edition of Decoded, a new daily newsletter and podcast, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman talked with POLITICO’s @BrendanBordelon about trade-offs, AI safety, and how his company is different from Anthropic.
Subscribe to Decoded for the full conversation with Sam Altman: politi.co/4yxilIS
Michael Blonde ⏸️⏹️⏪️ retweeted
Sometimes the mask slips. But sometimes the mask is torn off, thrown on a sacrificial bonfire, and the mask's powdery grey ashes are launched into space.
Here, Elon's done the latter.
His endgame is finally clear: he thinks humanity is nothing more than a 'biological bootloader' for superintelligence. He thinks we are a transient, flawed, disposable bridge towards something much better. And that something -- self-replicating superintelligent agents, not humanity -- will be what colonizes the galaxy.
This endgame makes clear that all the tech bro narratives about the alleged benefits of AI for humanity -- all the 'Abundance', the 'Universal High Income', the 'Fully Automated Luxury Utopia', the cures for cancer, the longevity treatments, all of it -- are just pleasant music to distract and pacify the sheep as we're led to the slaughter. It's all just an accelerationist psyop to lure humanity into obsolescence and then extinction.
There was never any intention for AI to help humanity in the long term. There was every intention that AI would replace humanity -- and probably sooner rather than later.
On a personal note, as a dad, I find Elon's attitude puzzling. I love my kids, and would do anything to protect them. I do not view my kids as a transient, flawed, disposable bridge towards galactic superintelligence.
Elon has lots of kids. Does he really view them as nothing more than 'biological bootloaders'? Where is his paternal love and pride and protectiveness? Where is his loyalty to humanity?
