alt Hacker NewsThe parallel is not to nuclear energy -- which has killed hilariously few people all things considered -- but to nuclear weapons and the nuclear arms race, which are an actual existential risk and arguably it was just dumb luck that a nuclear war never happened.
The parallel maybe if it was actually AGI and not just LLMs. We're very far from that but these safety discussions pretends it's all the same.
There's a massive difference between "LLMs doing cybersecurity testing should have extensive sandboxing and monitoring" and "AI is broadly threatening humanity like nuclear weapons". Just because it's useful to have people think about the possibilities doesn't mean it's an emergency requiring grand intervention.