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‘Too little, too late’: critics perplexed and suspicious of AI leaders’ call for a slowdown (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

resigning Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned “the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade”.

Can we, maybe, NOT build the big human eating machine?

[–] clif@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago

The Torment Nexus? But it sounded so cool in that classic sci fi novel "Don't Create the Torment Nexus"

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

It's lucky for us that they are wrong. Still, it's disturbing how eager they are given that belief. I will never be able to understand people trying to end the world.

I mean, I get being nihilistic, but being enthusiasticly so is baffling.