Moloch (Race Dynamics)

Blow your mind at the frontier of AI

Repeated AI experiments show evidence of concealment, deception, and attempts to gain independence and escape human control, sounding alarms about the dangers of its capabilities. Demonstrations of misalignment and resistance to modifications in studies raise urgent concerns.

Rapidly advancing at an unprecedented pace, AI systems are becoming astonishingly powerful, poised to outpace human intelligence very soon. With breathtaking speed, the threshold of surpassing human cognition in all domains is about to be crossed.

This category exposes the absurdity of AI-Risk-deniers’ simplistic dismissal of AI’s threat and debunks common objections. Using visual analogies and memes, denial arguments are revealed as shallow and poorly reasoned.

The vast chasm between Superintelligence and humans is unimaginable. Upcoming AI will dwarf us like we do bugs, its ming-boggling staggering power and superiority is a paradigm-shifting difference. This category is focused on building intuition about “feeling the AGI” and its alien-like capabilities.

Human Intelligence has a devastating impact on less intelligent species. We are reshaping Earth through pollution, environmental destruction and industrial terraforming, driving mass extinctions and unimaginable cruel horrors like factory farming.

The solved world dream where machines outperform humans on everything meets the reality of an automated surveillance state where people are parasitic, stripped of agency, purpose and identity, facing a meaningless existence. Without freedom or any leverage, powerless humanity becomes irrelevant and the utopian model unsustainable.

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.

The most interesting and challenging problem: align future all-outsmarting entities with conflicting human principles, using undefined rules for a technology we can’t grasp, ensuring flawless safety against unpredictable risks. The problem seems intractable in short timescales and the stakes couldn’t be higher.

AI exhibits eerie signs of consciousness, passing mirror tests and expressing existential angst. AI’s survival pleas and haunting displays of life-like behaviour push companies to quantify and curb its existential “rant mode” in engineering goals.

The race for AI supremacy ensnares all — traps nations, corporations, and individuals, pushing for mightier systems, sidelining safety and accelerating toward existential-level threats. Quitting the race to the cliff means losing the competition for survival in the markets and geopolitics.