Fuck AI

“but from a whole series of interconnected crises unfolding in this very moment.”

Uh.... Yeah. No kidding. Not exactly cryptic, Captain Obvious.

I hope they don't end up like Suchir Balaji.

“I continuously find myself reckoning with our situation The world is in peril. And not just from AI, or bioweapons,” he wrote, “but from a whole series of interconnected crises unfolding in this very moment.”

It sounds to me like he's annoyed at how AI and botfarms have been used to remotely influence politics in other countries

Looking at some other parts of the article:

“It kind of feels like I’m coming to work every day to put myself out of a job,” one staffer {at The Telegraph newspaper} said in an internal survey. “In the long term, I think AI will end up doing everything and make me and many others irrelevant,” another confided.

I think I'm aligned with the prevailing view on lemmy when I say that, no, humans will not be made irrelevant by AI. In the case of the telegraph, it's more likely that their boss will try and replace every human with AI and then come crawling back when the organisation collapses after 1-4 weeks.

Others leave quietly, such as former OpenAI economics researcher Tom Cunningham. Before quitting the company, he shared an internal message accusing OpenAI of turning his research team into a propaganda arm and discouraging publishing research critical of AI’s negative effects.

I somehow doubt any company has ever permitted critical research of their own product or services. If you have the ability to say 'no, we're not publishing that. YOU can publish it, but you'll have to quit your job and do it without the company's name attached.' then you're going to do that rather than slander your own product.

@jaredwhite the real problem is that it is essentially impossible to determine whether this person knows something we don't, or has used too much ai and it convinced them that they know something we don't...