Name one other industry that has adherents that say its products will kill us all as a means to boost sales. Assuming you're actually claiming people are actually saying AI might kill us all to boost AI market share. Like this is absurd. Apply it to any other industry:
Oil companies: "Climate change will soon end the human race and we are pushing scary narrative here so that people will buy more oil"
Biotech: "Our lethal compounds can be synthesized to a degree to end the human race. Clearly me scaring you like this will boost sales"
Arms dealers: "We are selling bombs that will guaruntee end the human race with 90% certainty. Wanna buy?"
It makes no sense. Hundreds of top AI searchers with zero financial stake in the private sector have raised the alarm about AI posing a risk on the same order of magnitude as nukes, climate change and bioterrorism.
Saying this is all just commercializing the human fear response is the same sort of lazy dismissive reasoning I can imagine was used when the first warning signs from epidemiologists came out regarding covid-19. "You're just trying to get funding for your anti-covid-19 research or some other political reason & and you're just using covid-19 fear to get what you want, how dare you!"
How much risk their is I can agree is up for debate, but that the motivations of people bringing up thee is a risk is just to commercialize things is so blatantly false it is a comical view to hold at this point. One of the fucking founders of AI Geoffrey Hinton spent the entire time during his Nobel prize award speech warning AI has a significant chance of killing us all if trends continue.
Like what, you think his old ass really cares about boosting book sales or trending on Twitter for saying something contrarian or something? No, he sincerely believes what he is saying.
If none of this convinces you something is up, what will? What do you need to see for it to be reasonable to go from completely dismiss to consider it as possibly serious?
Oil companies: "Climate change will soon end the human race and we are pushing scary narrative here so that people will buy more oil"
Biotech: "Our lethal compounds can be synthesized to a degree to end the human race. Clearly me scaring you like this will boost sales"
Arms dealers: "We are selling bombs that will guaruntee end the human race with 90% certainty. Wanna buy?"
It makes no sense. Hundreds of top AI searchers with zero financial stake in the private sector have raised the alarm about AI posing a risk on the same order of magnitude as nukes, climate change and bioterrorism.
Saying this is all just commercializing the human fear response is the same sort of lazy dismissive reasoning I can imagine was used when the first warning signs from epidemiologists came out regarding covid-19. "You're just trying to get funding for your anti-covid-19 research or some other political reason & and you're just using covid-19 fear to get what you want, how dare you!"
How much risk their is I can agree is up for debate, but that the motivations of people bringing up thee is a risk is just to commercialize things is so blatantly false it is a comical view to hold at this point. One of the fucking founders of AI Geoffrey Hinton spent the entire time during his Nobel prize award speech warning AI has a significant chance of killing us all if trends continue.
Like what, you think his old ass really cares about boosting book sales or trending on Twitter for saying something contrarian or something? No, he sincerely believes what he is saying.
If none of this convinces you something is up, what will? What do you need to see for it to be reasonable to go from completely dismiss to consider it as possibly serious?