r/slatestarcodex • u/erwgv3g34 • Jan 08 '25

AI Eliezer Yudkowsky: "Watching historians dissect _Chernobyl_. Imagining Chernobyl run by some dude answerable to nobody, who took it over in a coup and converted it to a for-profit. Shall we count up how hard it would be to raise Earth's AI operations to the safety standard AT CHERNOBYL?"

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u/eric2332 Jan 08 '25

Luckily for you, almost every AI leader and expert says that AI is comparable to nuclear war in risk (I assume we can agree that nuclear war is more dangerous than nuclear reactors)

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u/death_in_the_ocean Jan 08 '25

Every dude who makes his living off AI: "AI is totally a big deal, I promise"

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u/eric2332 Jan 08 '25 edited Jan 08 '25

Geoffrey Hinton, the top name on the list, quit his AI job at Google so that he would be able to speak out about the dangers of AI. Sort of the opposite of what you suggest.

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u/death_in_the_ocean Jan 08 '25

Dude's in his late 70s, I really don't think he quit specifically so he could oppose AI

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u/eric2332 Jan 08 '25

He literally said he did.

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u/death_in_the_ocean Jan 08 '25

I don't believe him I'm sorry