Potential 6 month warning until the end

[Frombeyond]

So, we potentially only have 6 months until the end of civilised society and mass deaths. I’m terrified and sad

AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1kx0gyje9wo

It's all part of hype to go public so they can cash out before the AI bubble pops.

How is what is basically a predictive text program is going to destroy human civilisation?

Look up “recursive self improvement”

The jehovas have been on the rum, i think the end of the world is judgement day, tho its a secret and no one knows when it will happen,.only the special 200000 get told and chosen only the very good ones,.the rest of us burn in hell, happy times

Have you read the articles and links posted. It very clearly explains exactly how.

And again, why do you think you know this - when virtually no scientists and experts agree?

Because it makes you feel better? I’m not being facetious but it’s the only way I can understand posters constantly posting that they know it’s ok against almost all popular (and unpopular!) opinion.

Who should/could be stopping this and why aren't they?!

I am watching a documentary on AI and the experts are split between "don't have children, humanity is doomed thanks to AI" and "children being born now are so lucky as we are entering the greatest phase of humanity thanks to AI".

I imagine the truth is somewhere in between.

Because it would take convincing everyone, including China. And is anyone there talking about this openly?

The documentary I am watching used the ant analogy. Have you seen it?

US government need to work with the top tech companies (who are more than willing they are asking for it) to slow down the pace of progress until they can safely establish guardrails and what they call ‘AI Alignment.’

read the essay I posted (first link) it’s really simply and carefully explained

Unfortunately Trump doesn’t care. He ripped up Biden’s AI safety framework. He said ‘progress at all costs, it’s the golden goose.’ Plus he’s 80 and a virtual psychopath.

IF the democrats win Congress in November there may be hope that they can progress safety regulations, but it might be too late. Hopefully not. Also to say, many Republican senators are now calling for regulation too. in fact most people, bar Trump

What we can do is raise awareness, and keep social pressure on governments.

No, I’ve not seen any documentaries, just read

Why do you keep making these threads OP?

Looking to cause panic and destabilise a country in retaliation for supporting Ukraine??

Much cheaper and cleaner than Nuking........🤔

I would query the label 'top scientists'... the AI companies coming out have a lot to gain from making us all believe that they have more power than they do. Especially if this then results in more money given to AI companies to 'research making it safer'. There is so much information flying around at all times, but something I read is that the AI bubble is due to burst. According to one piece, OpenAI was near bankruptcy.

I am so sorry and sad that these awful men steal our peace of mind.

Can we relax about children using tech at tables now?

Yes and it doesn't.

Some bullshit hacking incident and a completely different technology for protein folding or whatever which hardly anyone is investing in because LLMs have sucked in all the money in the world.

It's really all just hype, the bubble is peaking, the capital for data centres is running out and the costs of inference for new generations of LLMs is increasing just as they are improving at a slower and slower rate.

Try reading some sceptics if you are really afraid.

It's The AI Doc on Netflix. You should watch it as it examines the optimistic and the pessimistic predictions.

It's a few months away from major bank robbing as well. I'm seriously wondering if I should get a grand out and have in house

Where have you got it from that "virtually no scientists and experts agree"?

AI company employees and execs are not neutral scientific voices, but if that's the route you want to go down:
There are 4500 people working at OpenAI alone. Do you believe that >4450 of them are knowingly destroying humanity? Or does "life to continue pretty much as normal" just not make a good headline?

What on earth? I think you need a tinfoil hat.

That's not the context of what trump said. He said they need to win the race not Chinese.

What do you think ?
He said whoever wins wins ( trump said he coined that phrase )
This is the problem now because the USA does need to win but China doesnt have the ethic or morals we do. I'm.nore worried about China than trump ?

You are seriously worried?

Population decline is not exclusive to advances in AI.

Take a look at the correlation between the adoption of smartphones and child birth in developed economies, for example.

Well to answer that question you could turn to Jacob Coxon below. But also, these companies were (open AI has called it off today due to AI safety fears) due to float on the market and make the workers millionaires/ billionaires. Many are probably waiting for pay out day on the hope it won’t happen, because they reason it’ll happen anyway whether they’re there or not.

“The people who work at these companies are completely serious when they ask for regulation because they find themselves trapped in a race. And they're scared of the outcomes of that race,"

He said staff at AI firms were "planning what to do with their lives and thinking about the impacts of their work", while some were "considering buying land somewhere because they're so scared of the instability as a result of rapid AI progress".

"They all keep this in their head on a daily basis while working on the technology."
But Coxon did have some optimism about the future of AI, telling the BBC that the people researching the technology "genuinely want to see the upside" of things like "solving diseases and improving everyone's lives".

I think you’re getting replies from people who don’t understand what AI actually is, who the people raising the warnings are and why they’re raising the alarm. I have to say, I actually envy their absolute ignorance.

I think (for the tenth time) read the Amoda essay and you’ll see what he’s proposed and why it won’t mean China will ‘win’ the race.

also Trump said this in the past ‘If we kill the Golden Goose, you will only have yourselves to blame.’ Is what he said

That’s a bit harsh. The op didn’t make up the 6 month thing. There’s been various articles etc along the same lines from founding tech.