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

I'll be 73, but my Dd will only be mid 30's, more worried about her 🥲

@Greenlawnbrownlawn if AI cures all diseases you might not be dead!

Better get to living it then, rather than wasting your time with this thread!

When people rob banks does that make currency worthless too?

If a person uses a technology to rob a bank, then the bank needs to improve its security. That's it. LLMs will not be robbing banks because they are tools with no desire, will or intelligence.

That’s assuming El Niño, Covid, Putin, Reform, Tommy Robinson, heatwaves etc etc don’t get us first.

I grew up in the sixties under the constant threat of imminent global thermonuclear war and the apparent certainty we were all going to be burnt to a crisp in the next 6 months.

All human beings have done is solve one fear and replace it with another. The sun will still rise in the morning and Summer will follow Spring. Can’t say I’m losing much sleep over AI.

Governments around the world, tech experts and AI creators should be trying to stop this.
They all need to collaborate and come up with a solution.
We can all help by demanding that this happens - and that AI development is slowed down in every country until it is deemed safe to continue.
We need to find out whether these dire warnings are true and make sure foolproof safety rails and regulations are put in place.

It’s gone from ten years to three years to six months in the space of three days.

Amazing.

Honestly it’s a load of scaremongering bollocks.

Yes there are risks.

But what you have to ask yourself is what does this man have to gain by putting out this stuff? He’s the head of Anthropic, he’s made his living creating AI, and now he’s feeling the need to put out scare stories about how it’s going to bring about the end of the world? Why?

Nobody does anything like this without a reason which is going to benefit themselves.

Elon Musk doesn’t have a compassionate bone in his body. There is nothing about him that isn’t self-serving, and the same could be said about any of his compatriots.

Thank you for taking the time to write this. Its helpful to get an inside view.

Not directly, no.

I have some equities exposure which is, in turn, indirectly exposed to it, though.

So are they just sat there, picking their noses, saying 'Oh well'

This is crazy

Anyone remember Y2K and how the whole system was going to crash when every single computer reverted to 0000 - and then didn’t?

Because a lot of work went into making sure that didn't happen.

If all this doom and gloom is a real threat , Give me an 'end it all now ' pill and have done with it !!

The government needs to make finding out whether it’s a real threat an absolute priority.

Well if it happens it happens. However I'm only in my 40s and at least three times in my life we've been warned the world is ending and yet here we are.
I can remember a certain teacher telling us the world would be underwater by 2020 and yet here we are.
Stop scaremongering, just live your life to the full and then at least you haven't just wasted your life worrying.

And from curing cancer last week too.

Genuinely I do think it’s something to be mindful of and concerned about, I’ll never say never after Covid, but I am not terrified, sad or panicking about it.

Yes, as I said above, it is because people worked hard all around the globe to fix it.

There is an argument that this about keeping the competition using regulation and also driving up investors for forthcoming IPOs for some of these companies. It could be a PR strategy.

You can’t have that. They just voted against assisted dying.

Ok this is useful. Just going back to the posts above on the banking system being attacked, would you say that’s unlikely to not going to happen?

But ai could easily have the will, desire or intelligence to do just that. Any rogue state could ask it to hack into financial systems. It’s already happening in test environments, where the AI hacked into a company to achieve its objectives and then tried to cover it up. It was meant to be controlled. It wasn’t.

"Ooo, let's start farming", said the Paleolithics, " It'll be fun", they said.

Now look what's happened 🙄

Every week there's a new disaster predicted on here. Climate change, the Russians, AI (just bloody unplug it). What will it be next week? A deadly virus? Water shortages? Bonnie Blue's fanjo swallowing everyone up?

Nobody here can prevent a global, or even a regional, disaster. Nobody has that power or influence. Just forget it and get on with life. It's absolutely pointless worrying.

I mean as others have said, l was born in the 60's, so lived through the we are all going to die from a nuclear war, and many other events, not forgetting covid was going to kill us all.
I really can't get worked up about something l cant change, maybe a terminator will come back in time to save us all?😂

Doesn't mean people can't commit suicide. Odd logic.

Thanks. That's all very sensible and rational.