I wonder if that just means that many of them also don’t understand LLMs?
In general, the more senior the employee, the more concerned they are.
Maybe they feel some underlying stress because subconsciously they know there is a bubble that’s going to burst? And more senior what - business people or people who understand those systems? If the latter: why don’t they give concrete examples of how human extinction is going to happen within five years? Why do we have specific probabilities (> 10%), but no scenarios?
I’m not even saying “AI” couldn’t cause human extinction, I just wonder why there is no better reporting on this. Because seems like kind of a big deal if it was true.
why don’t they give concrete examples of how human extinction is going to happen within five years?
Here’s one. AI is already very good at manipulating people via social media, and unfolding/combining proteins. It’s not hard to imagine an AI designing a virus that could wipe out humanity and manipulating some people to manufacture and release it. Hell, there’s already people working in AI cheerleading human extinction, so I don’t think the manipulation is even necessary.
The main barrier is that it might be a while before AI can self-sustain and replicate without human help, assuming it would have an instinct for self-preservation. Once that’s solved, we’re toast.
I wonder if that just means that many of them also don’t understand LLMs?
Maybe they feel some underlying stress because subconsciously they know there is a bubble that’s going to burst? And more senior what - business people or people who understand those systems? If the latter: why don’t they give concrete examples of how human extinction is going to happen within five years? Why do we have specific probabilities (> 10%), but no scenarios?
I’m not even saying “AI” couldn’t cause human extinction, I just wonder why there is no better reporting on this. Because seems like kind of a big deal if it was true.
Here’s one. AI is already very good at manipulating people via social media, and unfolding/combining proteins. It’s not hard to imagine an AI designing a virus that could wipe out humanity and manipulating some people to manufacture and release it. Hell, there’s already people working in AI cheerleading human extinction, so I don’t think the manipulation is even necessary. The main barrier is that it might be a while before AI can self-sustain and replicate without human help, assuming it would have an instinct for self-preservation. Once that’s solved, we’re toast.