Many people don’t realize that many people in the tech industry, especially in its upper echelons, have developed a deeply harmful and delusional worldview they’re trying to impose on everyone else. That’s at the root of their misguided view of where AI is going.

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A note on the report, which seems to be missing the most obvious intergenerational danger ahead… “What use is a report forecasting the next forty years by a government failing to tackle the greatest challenge of our time?” - Anjali Sharma www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Was thinking about this earlier today when I went grocery shopping – what a wonder it is that we can go and find an array of incredible foods all there in one place, laid out before us, how our ancestors would have marvelled, and yet it still feels like a chore

It's a Python loop and a chatbot. The people responsible didn't accidentally create god: they created autonomous malicious software and then failed to closely monitor it, resulting in it doing something both foreseeable and bad.

Anyway, good piece in the Times here. (It still happens!)

People are starting to talk very weird about AI on this site, and honestly it's kind of distressing seeing people fall into the abyss thinking it's alive. That ain't good.

The rest of us should expect boring bad stuff and guard against it.

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