Post #2535153

2023-06-22 13:45 UTC

I have mixed feelings about this piece. The reporting seems fair but it&#39;s problematic to us &quot;AI apocalypse&quot; as the framing &amp; elevate the fever dreams of those who are most insulated from the real harms. https://spectrum.ieee.org/artificial-general-intelligence AI doomers &amp; AI boosters inhabit the same fantasy world, which would just be laughable except they are capturing too much of a scarce resource: the attention of policy makers. For a more grounded view, I&#39;d like to plug #MAIHT3k buzzsprout.com/2126417

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@haere@mastodon.art 2023-06-22 14:05

@emilymbender@dair-community.social it's nice to have a cheat sheet about who's actually an expert vs who the hucksters/shills are (the ones like altman who don't jump right to the "by default, kill literally everyone on the planet" stories are the dangerous ones imo)

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@corbin@defcon.social 2023-06-22 14:35

@emilymbender@dair-community.social The reporting uses "AI specialist" as a label for clowns (Yud, Bostrom) and non-technical folk (Altman, Tegmark) as well as y'all at DAIR and other reputable organizations. This is better than typical IEEE fare but still not fair to actual practitioners.

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@ErichV@towns.gay 2023-06-22 15:55

@emilymbender@dair-community.social Schumer launches ‘all hands on deck' push to regulate Al Really? That the most pressing issue for the US government right now? Really? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/21/ai-regulation-us-senate-chuck-schumer/

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@finley@transden.lgbt 2023-06-23 00:14

@emilymbender@dair-community.social I mean it's at least a little problematic that they're putting y'all on the same level as a eugenicist like Nick Bostrom. Did someone from the NY Times write this?

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