"A Taxonomy of AI Panic Facilitators"
A visualization of leading AI Doomers (X-risk open letters, media interviews & OpEds).
Some AI experts enable them, while others oppose them.
The gender dynamics are fucked up.
It says a lot about the panic itself.
Your thoughts?
In early July, Epoch AI estimated that 33 models had been trained with at least 10^25 FLOP.
So, here's your REMINDER that the doomers asked to ban/restrict models above 10^21 FLOP (Conjecture), 10^23 (CAIS, ControlAI), 10^24 (GovAI), then 10^25 (FLI, PauseAI, ICFG).
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🚨 Effective Altruism's Bait-and-Switch:
From Global Poverty to AI Doomerism 🚨
The Effective Altruism founders planned – from day one – to mislead donors and new members in order to build the movement's brand and community.
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In May 2021, the Future of Life Institute became a 665.8-million-dollar organization.
It's only now, in March 2024, that we learn the magnitude of Buterin's donation.
FLI used it to fund existing "AI Existential Risk" organizations and created new ones.
#Shibagate
🚨The UK AISI identified four methodological flaws in AI "scheming" studies (deceptive alignment) conducted by Anthropic, MTER, Apollo Research, and others:
"We call researchers studying AI 'scheming' to minimise their reliance on anecdotes, design research with appropriate
Kurzgesagt got = $7,533,224 from Open Philanthropy
We got = "a virus that only kills people with green eyes," a starving skeleton in front of his screen, and a ridiculous "survival kit" merchandise (to further fund Kurzgesagt).
Cool.
The AI Dilemma's 😱 Panic-as-a-Business:
- Freaking people out with monstrous AI
- Freaking people out with dubious survey stats
- Distracting people from the real issues
🚨 New article: bit.ly/41JhjJm
Effective Altruism billionaires spend millions of dollars brainwashing students into believing that "superhuman AI systems" will end humanity.
As a result - they need mental health support.
We recently surveyed 300+ Harvard students about their views on AI. Our most surprising result: over 40% of Harvard students believe that AI extinction risk should be a global priority alongside pandemics and nuclear war. Link here: arxiv.org/abs/2406.00833; more results in 🧵.
