[HN Gopher] OpenAI Employees Warn of Advanced AI Dangers
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       OpenAI Employees Warn of Advanced AI Dangers
        
       Author : mgh2
       Score  : 3 points
       Date   : 2024-06-04 21:25 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | zer00eyz wrote:
       | >> including further entrenchment of existing inequalities,
       | manipulation and misinformation, and loss of control of
       | autonomous AI systems
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       | 1. further entrenchment of existing inequalities ... we were
       | doing this LONG before AI came along. This isnt a new problem,
       | it's not like AI is the reason some groups are under-represented
       | in tech. (and it's not like tech itself is to blame alone).
       | 
       | 2. manipulation and misinformation... Go back in history and the
       | progressive movement was all in on eugenics in the early 1900's.
       | Alex jones is a thing today. This was already a problem.
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       | 3. loss of control of autonomous AI systems ... there's the
       | doomer I know and love! If your an AIG doomer go read I, Pencil.
       | Look at the guy who tried to make a toaster from nothing (and
       | bread too). Read up about how brittle the entire power system is.
       | Things are falling apart because we're too cheap to put the
       | people and resources into maintaining them. Unless AGI wants to
       | die in the process it's going to be a long time before a world
       | exists where it doesn't need people.
       | 
       | Seriously, climate change, nuclear threats, a bad screw up in bio
       | research... way more likely to kill us all than for us to get to
       | AGI.
       | 
       | AI today is about as useful as a bitcoin in a black out. It's
       | interesting but it doesn't DO anything other than waste power and
       | resources.
       | 
       | EDIT: it was so worrying that all the main safety folks quit
       | openAI and no longer want to save us /s
        
       | kylecazar wrote:
       | I'm beginning to think these warnings are coming from people with
       | grandiosity issues.
       | 
       | Do they WANT to be working on something capable of 'human
       | extinction'? Maybe I'm cynical, but I strongly disagree that
       | anything OpenAI builds on the same trajectory as GPTx is going to
       | end the world.
        
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