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Bill Gates says unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’ in call for regulation [in fearmarketing stunt] (www.theguardian.com)
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I don't understand why Bill Gates still feels the need to do marketing work, he is already rich he doesn't need to do commercials and blatantingly shill for a product for money like this.

Also the ides that anyone should listen to Bill Gates about needing or not needing government regulation, nationalization or trustbusting is actually insane.

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[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 0 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

We're making the same argument. The people building these tools must be held accountable.

[–] self@awful.systems 4 points 8 hours ago

we don’t actually need anyone here to rebroadcast anthropic and openai’s marketing claims, thanks

[–] anise@awful.systems 3 points 13 hours ago

you aren't, you're making a similar arguments to the doomers. The problem they have isn't that their chatbots are "hacking people" or whatever, it's that there isn't a lot of room to either escalate or substantiate their claims left and not a lot of time to find a way to be profitable, somehow