Team Blue et al can't admit that the climate narrative has collapsed (ironically in no small part as announced by Bill Gates to make way for AI infrastructure), so they have to just swap in the next big "existential crisis" bogeyman: AI. Riding on Gen Z's hatred of AI (which is not unreasonable unto itself) as sure as the tides, the passions are flamed by the sensational party par excellence!
Sasha, 100%. This is truly a diabolical psy-op where Anthropic is funding the "evaluators" and everyone else in the Doomer Camp. There’s big money in panic. There’s even bigger money in regulatory capture.
Give Democrats control of AI and it will turn out just as well as their handling of our retirement savings, health care, and educational systems.
The Dems taking power and using regulatory powers coupled with the cooperation of like-minded individuals in tech to control AI, like they did with censorship and disinformation during the Biden Administration, is the single likeliest way that the AI future turns dystopian.
It certainly seems that Democrat fearmongering is 90% political and 10% based on reality. It's the same tactic they have used for years - Ozone Holes - Global Warming - Global Cooling - etc. Rham Emmanuel said it best "Never let a crisis go to waste." If there is no crisis, then they pick one out of thin air. Can you imagine the current stable of Democrats being in charge of this thing? It might need policing but that should come from the industry not political midwits.
The reality is not even the point. It is absurd to think there is anyone in government that can ride herd on computer scientists who are worth $hundreds of millions a year. Yes, AI has potential to cause great harm. I think we all knew that already (have watched enough sci-fi movies). It is up to the designers of code no one else will ever understand, to police themselves. We do not need theatrics to scare the public. Dario will be a hundred Billionaire soon. Certainly, to those with that kind of ability comes the responsibility to manage your own business, just like chemical plants or owners of nuclear reactors are expected to do. Yes, there are safety inspectors in those industries. But people within the industry pay for those inspectors and help write the safety rules (and I have been on an industry safety committee, so I know that process)
Democrats always panic-monger because, as the party of government, they want the public to believe that everything is a crisis that only government can solve. Because Democrats are motivated by politics instead of reason, they whipsaw us. For example, telling us we should hug Chinese infected with COVID to prove we're not racists because COVID originated in a bat cave and is harmless. Then telling us they're placing us under house arrest to keep it from killing us. They are stupid, emotional people, with stupid ideas.
"AI" is merely an enhanced search engine that reads data from the Internet and internal databases and reprints it in a conversational way, the first generation of crude AI languages like LISP and SNOBOL attempted in the 1950s and 1960s.
The hysteria is designed, as you say, to put the Democrats in charge of it. All these hysteria fads have half lives. Whether its Russians stealing elections, climate change, foreign drones roaming the skies, or whatever, it is all calculated to induce panic, to get the people so agitated, they can't think straight in an election year.
When the AI market leaders are asking Congress to write rules and to slow down development, you can be sure of two things:
1.The AI guys are burning cash
2.When the AI guys want Congress to write rules, they really mean THEY will graciously help out and write the rules themselves to, guess what, benefit themselves and create hurdles for any new competition. That's what market leaders do.
In all of the recent conversations about AI, the focus has been on rogue, hostile, combative, criminal and destructive AI... the "boogeyman."
The obvious solution that is rarely, if ever, mentioned is a white-hat wearing, damsel saving, baby rescuing, bulging biceps, good guy hero AI.
Someone needs to focus more clearly on the solution, instead of fanning the flames of fear. These guys are supposed to be smart, but using the government to legalize and reward a monopoly is an old ploy that thinking folk can see through
I remember when they tried to scare us with nuclear weapons...we were all gonna die unless we built more bombs than the Soviets. Now we need to build more AI than the Russians, etc.
Yes, it's another "climate crisis" type of scam. But note that, while the climate hysteria has died down in the US (largely because the voices of scientists who know better are now being heard via X), it is still alive and well in Europe. Last night I watched the newest episode of the Danish crime drama The Sommerdahl Murders, and a there was a big emphasis on the police station being required to meet various climate targets (enforced recycling, switching to solar power, etc.) This episode must have been written and filmed in the last year or so. The ability of European governments to control their people's minds is alarming, and the Democrats want to control the minds of the American public in the same way so they can pursue their globalist agenda. We need to be very wary.
It is all so ridiculous. What do the smartest AI brains on the planet expect the USA government to do about their problem? Who is going to supervise these geniuses and let them know when they have done something wrong? And if the entire industry must be regulated and controlled, did anyone tell Xi Zhinping and China? I don't think they will go along with the ruse. This is clearly a political stunt to cause issues for the GOP, Trump and the AI economy. Dario and Sam are both strong in the Democrat camp. Elon Musk also signed on, but he has feared the worst for years. For that reason, he delayed his development efforts with Grok and is now behind the curve. So, yes, Elon would like the industry to take a breather. We also know that Jensen Huang called bullshit on Dario and Sam. No one is smarter on AI than Dr Huang. My biggest issue with all this commotion is that product safety is ALWAYS the responsibility of the manufacturer. And it is fine for industry members to work together on a committee to make sure the industry is safe. I have been on such industry commissions with Fortune 500 companies and there is no anti-trust issue in doing so. We worked with ANSI on our committee and many industries do. The AI industry could organize under ANSI (American National Standards Institute) or under IEEE (the electrical engineering association). The main point is though that the industry better police itself. If it needs to slow down and be more cautious, then it should do that. Dario does not need to make it a political issue to Trump and the GOP
The reason nothing happened was because businesses put a lot of resources into fixing the problem before, well, Y2K, not because "doomsayers" were wrong.
The places I worked (financial services) hired additional COBOL programmers, etc., to fix the code. Other industries did the same. And now everyone thinks the "Y2K" problem was a myth.
I have learned that whatever Obama says before an election, just do the opposite. I remember when he came out of the woodwork to tout mail-in ballots before the 2020 election…
Team Blue et al can't admit that the climate narrative has collapsed (ironically in no small part as announced by Bill Gates to make way for AI infrastructure), so they have to just swap in the next big "existential crisis" bogeyman: AI. Riding on Gen Z's hatred of AI (which is not unreasonable unto itself) as sure as the tides, the passions are flamed by the sensational party par excellence!
Sasha, 100%. This is truly a diabolical psy-op where Anthropic is funding the "evaluators" and everyone else in the Doomer Camp. There’s big money in panic. There’s even bigger money in regulatory capture.
Give Democrats control of AI and it will turn out just as well as their handling of our retirement savings, health care, and educational systems.
Doug! You may like the article I just wrote on this: total psyop and Doomer campaign. Good news is that no one is buying it: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/ai-could-destroy-humanity-so-why
A little too convenient for Dario to freak out 6 weeks before the election
The Dems taking power and using regulatory powers coupled with the cooperation of like-minded individuals in tech to control AI, like they did with censorship and disinformation during the Biden Administration, is the single likeliest way that the AI future turns dystopian.
It certainly seems that Democrat fearmongering is 90% political and 10% based on reality. It's the same tactic they have used for years - Ozone Holes - Global Warming - Global Cooling - etc. Rham Emmanuel said it best "Never let a crisis go to waste." If there is no crisis, then they pick one out of thin air. Can you imagine the current stable of Democrats being in charge of this thing? It might need policing but that should come from the industry not political midwits.
The reality is not even the point. It is absurd to think there is anyone in government that can ride herd on computer scientists who are worth $hundreds of millions a year. Yes, AI has potential to cause great harm. I think we all knew that already (have watched enough sci-fi movies). It is up to the designers of code no one else will ever understand, to police themselves. We do not need theatrics to scare the public. Dario will be a hundred Billionaire soon. Certainly, to those with that kind of ability comes the responsibility to manage your own business, just like chemical plants or owners of nuclear reactors are expected to do. Yes, there are safety inspectors in those industries. But people within the industry pay for those inspectors and help write the safety rules (and I have been on an industry safety committee, so I know that process)
It’s the new climate change.
When Bernie and Hakeem joined the AI Danger Chorus, I knew it was just another coordinated media tempest. Fear is all they've got.
Democrats always panic-monger because, as the party of government, they want the public to believe that everything is a crisis that only government can solve. Because Democrats are motivated by politics instead of reason, they whipsaw us. For example, telling us we should hug Chinese infected with COVID to prove we're not racists because COVID originated in a bat cave and is harmless. Then telling us they're placing us under house arrest to keep it from killing us. They are stupid, emotional people, with stupid ideas.
"AI" is merely an enhanced search engine that reads data from the Internet and internal databases and reprints it in a conversational way, the first generation of crude AI languages like LISP and SNOBOL attempted in the 1950s and 1960s.
The hysteria is designed, as you say, to put the Democrats in charge of it. All these hysteria fads have half lives. Whether its Russians stealing elections, climate change, foreign drones roaming the skies, or whatever, it is all calculated to induce panic, to get the people so agitated, they can't think straight in an election year.
When the AI market leaders are asking Congress to write rules and to slow down development, you can be sure of two things:
1.The AI guys are burning cash
2.When the AI guys want Congress to write rules, they really mean THEY will graciously help out and write the rules themselves to, guess what, benefit themselves and create hurdles for any new competition. That's what market leaders do.
Yup. As soon as the Left's fake god Obama started spewing warnings about AI, I concluded this is their latest scare tactic.
As if Obama has a clue about AI design
In all of the recent conversations about AI, the focus has been on rogue, hostile, combative, criminal and destructive AI... the "boogeyman."
The obvious solution that is rarely, if ever, mentioned is a white-hat wearing, damsel saving, baby rescuing, bulging biceps, good guy hero AI.
Someone needs to focus more clearly on the solution, instead of fanning the flames of fear. These guys are supposed to be smart, but using the government to legalize and reward a monopoly is an old ploy that thinking folk can see through
I remember when they tried to scare us with nuclear weapons...we were all gonna die unless we built more bombs than the Soviets. Now we need to build more AI than the Russians, etc.
Yes, it's another "climate crisis" type of scam. But note that, while the climate hysteria has died down in the US (largely because the voices of scientists who know better are now being heard via X), it is still alive and well in Europe. Last night I watched the newest episode of the Danish crime drama The Sommerdahl Murders, and a there was a big emphasis on the police station being required to meet various climate targets (enforced recycling, switching to solar power, etc.) This episode must have been written and filmed in the last year or so. The ability of European governments to control their people's minds is alarming, and the Democrats want to control the minds of the American public in the same way so they can pursue their globalist agenda. We need to be very wary.
Okay, who laughed when watching that Y2K video?
The good old days of innocence.
It is all so ridiculous. What do the smartest AI brains on the planet expect the USA government to do about their problem? Who is going to supervise these geniuses and let them know when they have done something wrong? And if the entire industry must be regulated and controlled, did anyone tell Xi Zhinping and China? I don't think they will go along with the ruse. This is clearly a political stunt to cause issues for the GOP, Trump and the AI economy. Dario and Sam are both strong in the Democrat camp. Elon Musk also signed on, but he has feared the worst for years. For that reason, he delayed his development efforts with Grok and is now behind the curve. So, yes, Elon would like the industry to take a breather. We also know that Jensen Huang called bullshit on Dario and Sam. No one is smarter on AI than Dr Huang. My biggest issue with all this commotion is that product safety is ALWAYS the responsibility of the manufacturer. And it is fine for industry members to work together on a committee to make sure the industry is safe. I have been on such industry commissions with Fortune 500 companies and there is no anti-trust issue in doing so. We worked with ANSI on our committee and many industries do. The AI industry could organize under ANSI (American National Standards Institute) or under IEEE (the electrical engineering association). The main point is though that the industry better police itself. If it needs to slow down and be more cautious, then it should do that. Dario does not need to make it a political issue to Trump and the GOP
They could just stop ALL CHIPS to China, but then we would have no new anything that runs on chips and is made it China, as well.
A bit OT, but the Y2K problem was real!
The reason nothing happened was because businesses put a lot of resources into fixing the problem before, well, Y2K, not because "doomsayers" were wrong.
The places I worked (financial services) hired additional COBOL programmers, etc., to fix the code. Other industries did the same. And now everyone thinks the "Y2K" problem was a myth.
I guess we did a good job.
The computer industry did not say: "STOP THE CALENDAR!!!!"
I have learned that whatever Obama says before an election, just do the opposite. I remember when he came out of the woodwork to tout mail-in ballots before the 2020 election…