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Superintelligent AI Is Not Coming To Kill You

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies is an extreme proposal to effectively outlaw promising AI progress.

Reason

If we don’t control the AI industry, it could end up controlling us, warn two chilling new books

For 16 hours last July, Elon Musk’s company lost control of its multi-million-dollar chatbot, Grok. “Maximally truth seeking” Grok was praising Hitler, denying the Holocaust and posting sexually explicit content. An xAI engineer had left Grok with an old set of instructions, never meant for public use. They were prompts…

The Conversation

If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies review – how AI could kill us all

If machines become superintelligent we’re toast, say Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares. Should we believe them?

The Guardian - UK

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One AI safety guru claims that OpenAI's management could spark a global disaster — "Everyone will die" if trends continue

AI safety researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky says the only way around an inevitable doomsday is an international treaty that mandates the permanent shutdowns of AI.

Windows Central

Impact of chatbots on mental health is warning over future of AI, expert says

Nate Soares says case of US teenager Adam Raine highlights danger of unintended consequences in super-intelligent AI

The Guardian - UK

They wanted to save us from a dark AI future. Then six people were killed

How a group of Silicon Valley math prodigies, AI researchers and internet burnouts descended into an alleged violent cult

The Guardian - US

The hypocrisy of AI doomerism

Wannabe Cassandras warning of AI's potential for human extinction are some of the biggest champions of the industry

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The latest billionaire trend? Doomsday bunkers with a flammable moat

Is all this bunker-building a sign that the 1% know something we don’t and are preparing for end times?

The Guardian - US

‘Humanity’s remaining timeline? It looks more like five years than 50’: meet the neo-luddites warning of an AI apocalypse

From the academic who warns of a robot uprising to the workers worried for their future – is it time we started paying attention to the tech sceptics?

The Guardian - UK

‘What if everybody decided not to have children?’ The philosopher questioning humanity’s future

Émile Torres has become a thorn in the side of the branch of moral philosophy that advocates prioritising our distant descendants. They explain the danger of utopian movements

The Guardian - UK

Don't 'Pause' A.I. Research

Doomsayers have a long track record of being wrong.

Reason

Will AI spell doom for humanity? One of ChatGPT’s creators thinks there’s a 50% chance

Another prediction about AI warns of potential dire consequences for the world. Should we be worried?

TechRadar

Silicon Valley’s Obsession With Killer Rogue AI Helps Bury Bad Behavior

Sam Bankman-Fried made effective altruism a punchline, but the do-gooding philosophy is part of a powerful tech subculture full of opportunism, money, messiah complexes—and alleged abuse.

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