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

What? Of course it’s not happening right now or we’d be over. This is what they’re warning could happen in the immediate future as the Ai is becoming out of their control

And are they saying humanity ends in 2030? Or is that just Musk? Who I reckon would say the moon is going to turn purple and explode if it got him the attention he craves.

So will you now be spending every penny of your life savings over the next 3 years?

Seriously, I’m interested?

The one thing I'm glad about now is deciding not to have any children. Today's and tomorrow's world must be a worry for parents. But I suppose our own parents and grandparents worried about us back in the day too.

In 1999, some of the experts said the new millennium would cause planes to fall from sky, banking systems to disrupt and internet systems to interpret 00 as 1900 which would cause widespread chaos.

And yet…

This made me smile 😊 Seriously, life can be hard enough in the here and now, why ruin the present worrying by things that either may never happen or that you have zero control over.

Live for today and get as much joy as you can out of this week.

Genuinely (and gently) OP, do.you truly believe these claims? As much as AI is supposedly on course to becoming the thing that wipes us all out a la Terminator style, (and one theory my DH agrees with), I think there is probably a very minute chance of it taking only three months.

If it is going to happen, I guess I should just sell my house, live in a hotel for a couple of months, then go travelling on the money I make. Sounds a great way to end.

My niece reckons 3 years.
Think I'll go 🤪

Again, read Amodei. He explains why he started AI, what he believes what it can do (positive) and why it’s a crucial - and very limited - point in time to stop the negatives which he believes, along with the rest of the AI community could bring down humanity. If we don’t do something now.

darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier

I can't be bothered to worry about things I can't control. Have enough going on In my life!

Not me, what’s been said ?!

I’m not sure why people are so dismissive OP. I think the lack of regulation has been reckless beyond belief.

Since the dawn of time the world has been going to end according to some. Sir Issac Newton, Jim Jones, Harold Camping, HG Wells too name but a few.

No point worrying about it. It will happen after everyone on Mumsnet is dead in about a million years.

EXACTLY! And yet, the computer experts of the world pulled together and produced the fix for the Millenium Bug issue. Without that all computers would have failed. They averted disaster. Great example of what the global community can do when faced with threat

the proposed ‘go slow’ framework from Anthropic CEO clearly explains how it won’t allow China to bypass the US and goes into much detail on this

I've read the "essay", @Frombeyond, and wonder where the CEO and his detail will be if it turns out China can do this after all

If we accept the hypothesis that AI can move beyond control, it follows logically that we also won't be able to control what other regimes do with it, and I expect we've all seen too many assurances about "unbreakable systems" which turn out not to be unbreakable after all to have much faith in future ones

Arnie was sent back from 2029 in Terminator. Just saying.

what WE can do is raise the conversation and the social pressure so governments’ listen.

Can you say a bit about how you're going to raise the conversation and the social pressure so governments listen?

Or does it solely involve starting threads on Mumsnet, to tell everyone you're 'terrified and sad'?

Not in the least bit worried especially as my phones' ai can't even remember where I live most of the time let alone take over the world 🤣

OP, the end of the world has been nigh for centuries, millenia even.

Nigh is a long way away. No point in worrying.

Take action against AI and climate change by all means, but don't assume we'll all be goners by 2027.

I am in my sixties and have heard this so many times: nuclear war was going to kill us all in 1970s but didn't; Y2K computer bug would stop all computers from working leading to all machines stopping working - no access to money from banks, all hospital equipment failing etc etc, but didn't; AIDS, bird flu, Covid would wipe us all out but didn't.

Life goes on.

DH who works with AI believes in it OP. It's a runaway train

How old are you OP?
I’m assuming not old enough that you didn’t live through the Cold War where we were told a nuclear winter was coming any minute?
Aids was going to kill everyone.
Y2K was going to end civilisation as we knew it.
Even Covid was going to wipe everyone out, but ended up being a few million which is hardly a blip in a population of Billions…panic and misery sells papers/internet clicks. Get out for a walk you’ll feel much better!

Reminds me a little of Y2K, the scaremongering. Anyway, if it happens, it happens. At least nature would be happy going by how much better it did during lockdown! Ha.

Switch it off at the wall, surely? If AI gets any ideas!

YOU think (what - the you who knows better than the leading experts in the field?) PROBABLY A VERY MINUTE CHANCE (again, what exactly are you basing this view on?).

The way people just assume that everything will be okay, completely ignoring the fact that those who are warning us are the people who actually know what they're talking about, is why we're in the situation we're now in. This is the age of stupid. Humans have developed beings which will very soon be far more intelligent than we are and will become the master race. And for what? So that a few people could become richer and have, arguably, higher status among humans for a few years.

Most of the posts on this thread are from people who are completely ignorant and want to stay that way, or are in denial.

I have tried to put pressure on government to eradicate child poverty - didn't work
I tried to put pressure on government to improve NHS - didn't work
I tried to put pressure on government to not get involved in war - didn't work
I tried to put pressure on government to be cognisant of climate change - didn't work
I tried to put pressure on government to narrow the gap between rich and poor - didn't work
I tried to put pressure on government to improve life expectancy - didn't work
I could go on.....