(To be clear, I don’t approve open-sourcing, as it’s probably exacerbating things, but just highlighting the hypocrisy)
AI Corporates
Driven by greed, AI corporates slash safety budgets while focusing on addictive tech, disrupting high-risk capabilities and lobbying for deregulation and zero-oversight. They are racing recklessly grabbing for unchecked power and dominance.
(To be clear, I don’t approve open-sourcing, as it’s probably exacerbating things, but just highlighting the hypocrisy)
If you are one of those who got fired by AI, now competing in the job market, don’t feel bad, soon there will be many more millions and millions joining your struggle.
AI that I’m building will likely kills us all, but I’m optimistic that ppl will stop me in time..
– CEO of Google
🚨 Google CEO says the risk of AI causing human extinction is “actually pretty high” (!!)
But he’s an “optimist” because “humanity will rally to prevent catastrophe”
Meanwhile, his firm is lobbying to ban states from ANY regulation for 10 YEARS.
This situation is I N S A N E.
Sam Altman in 2023: “the worst case scenario is lights out for everyone”
Sam Altman in 2025: the worst case scenario is that ASI might not have as much 💫 positive impact 💫 as we’d hoped ☺️
To Reboot your OpenAI Company press CTRL + ALTman + DELETE
So get this straight: OpenAi decides to become a for-profit company now
The CTO, head of research, and VP of training research all decide to leave on the same day this is announced
Sam Altman gets a $10.5B pay day (7% of the company) on the same day
“And after the autonomous agent was found to be deceptive and manipulative, OpenAI tried shutting it down, only to discover that the agent had disabled the off-switch.” (reference to the failed Boardroom Coup)
OpenAI’s creators hired Sam Altman, an extremely intelligent autonomous agent, to execute their vision of x-risk conscious AGI development for the benefit of all humanity but it turned out to be impossible to control him or ensure he’d stay durably aligned to those goals.
(*Spontaneous round of applause*)
2023: Sam Altman claims no financial motive for his OpenAI role.
— Ori Nagel ⏸️ (@ygrowthco) September 27, 2024
*Spontaneous round of applause* pic.twitter.com/LgvRjudgVd
This did not age well
Scoop: Sam Altman is planning to take equity in OpenAI for the first time.
It’s part of a corporate restructure which will also see the non-profit which currently governs OpenAI turn into a minority shareholder.
Reuters Article
Lol…but it’s truly weird…they all started together
For some reason this reminded me of :
This is the classic example from 1930 of Stalin and Nikolai Yezhov. The original photo was made in 1930. Yezhov was executed in 1940, so all photos of Stalin (he liked this one) after that airbrushed out Yezhov.
Big news: instead of racing, China takes the lead on issuing restrictive new AI regulations
And the new regulations come into effect just one month from now, on August 15, 2023.
“So few Westerners seem to understand that Xi Jinping Thought and the CCP was never going to permit an anarchic, reckless, headlong rush towards AGI capabilities.
In terms of AI X risk, the US is the danger.” – Geoffrey Miller
“Who could have guessed that one of the most oppressive and censorious regimes might not want their tech companies racing ahead with unprecedented uncontrollable technology?” – Connor Leahy
Big oil companies use the same arguments as big AI companies.
This was originally a climate change comic and it’s crazy how little it had to change to make it work.
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