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If I work at Anthropic and say there’s a 0% chance AI could kill all humans is BBC going to publish that as well? After all I am an “Anthropic researcher”, and
by paxys 7d ago
If I work at Anthropic and say there’s a 0% chance AI could kill all humans is BBC going to publish that as well? After all I am an “Anthropic researcher”, and my views should hold the same weight as this one.
Or are only the most sensationalist ones worth amplifying?
- sebzim4500 7d agoHe is in line with the median AI researcher in this 2022 survey: https://wiki.aiimpacts.org/doku.php?id=ai_timelines:predictions_of_human-level_ai_timelines:ai_timeline_surveys:2022_expert_survey_on_progress_in_ai https://wiki.aiimpacts.org/doku.php?id=ai_timelines:predicti...
- Eezee 7d ago0% is the expected answer, because otherwise why wouldn't you be doing everything you could to stop this?
- sebzim4500 7d agoHow do you know he isn't? At least propose what you think he should do instead.
- dogma1138 7d agoThe chance that biomedical and viral research could also kill all humans is greater than 0%. Should we stop doing that also?
- bot403 7d agoCrispr gene editing is an amazing and terrifying technology. We have the capability to edit people in permenant ways which could be passed to all future generations with unknown side effects and consequences. I believe now we only have a shaky agreement by researchers and countries to "promise" not to do this due to the unforeseen dangers to humanity.
- Dlemlo 7d agoI think the view is fair. We have never seen something like this before, we throw the most money we ever had against it in a time were we solved all the other problems: Internet today allows immediadte communication across the planet (it was a lot slower 25 years ago), the supplychain is massive and fast (we can build a new phone/item in a very short period of time and ship it in massive numbers around the globe).
- Lutger 7d ago> win a time were we solved all the other problems You don't mean this literally right? We still have hunger, diseases, slavery, poverty, crime, war, climate change, pollution, microplastics, etc. For me it feels like we are very far away from solving these problems.
- Dlemlo 7d agoI meant it only for things which speedup innovation / progress in a particular technology. Like take physical AI / Robotics: 25 years ago you would need to fly to wereever your manufacturing hub was, today you just call.