alt Hacker NewsIt’s cliché, but we really live in one of the dumbest timeline possible. The work from some of the most valued companies, discussed as one of the most important revolution in humanity, is somehow at the same time presented as very dangerous/risky AND handled in the most irresponsible ways? I don’t like the whole „it’s only marketing“, but at the same time, if it’s not, then AI vendors look extremely careless and shouldn’t be the ones steering AI development
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reducesuffering • today at 8:46 PM
These companies are in a furious race to AGI. They even know that doing so is extremely risky to all of our lives. The incentives are to do so, the leaders and employees are writing letters begging to regulate them on an even global field
They're not being especially careless to industry norms. It is partly that software engineering has no professional standards, and partly that AI is fundamentally dangerous in a very slippery way.
Yes, they of course try to spin this for marketing. But that is not the primary problem - it's systemic.
We need to solve this with better engineering, and building powerful AI much more slowly and carefully.