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figassis • today at 11:14 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

"He attributes the incidents to poor human oversight and system design, and says they’re “totally preventable" - I know people respect him, but this sounds like someone paid to say this. Aren't most extinction risks preventable with better human oversight and system design? I mean we can have an asteroid hit us, but outside of this, isn't the point of talking about a problem that we can prevent it, and failing to leads to that? What is he saying that I'm missing?


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mdp2021 • today at 12:16 PM

He just says that the danger is not intrinsic to the technology but it remains on human error.

> extinction risks

If you fear that, blame it on the humans.

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dfxm12 • today at 9:25 PM

You should be aware there's a larger context here, with people (including at anthropic/openAI) anthropomorphizing AI systems, implying they act on their own, completely independent of human interaction or oversight.