Comment by afavour
8 hours ago
It won’t happen, but if it did the CEOs have no one but themselves to blame. They’re hyping up their products as being able to destroy the human race then are somehow surprised at the level of anti-AI sentiment out there in the world.
If the nuclear power or life sciences people were putting out press releases saying "our product may kill us all", they'd be dragged into endless Congressional inquiries.
> they'd be dragged into endless Congressional inquiries
The GOP is a cuckold of a proper party. Even in their current miserable state, the House flipping blue will almost certainly prompt this.
Wasnt the Oppenheimer story basically that?
There was https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2019/09/12/the_fear_th... , but that was (validly) dismissed by other scientists working on it, and also wasn't a discussion that was happening in public because the entire program was secret.
"This will kill a lot of (other) people" was explicit in the building of the bomb, but then so was the entire war effort.
I honestly don’t know what anyone expected given all the labs started building self-driving malware at about the same time.
I remember lots of people talking about running agents in VMs or on whole dedicated machines, yet barely anyone talking about how they were using mundane OS access controls.
> level of anti-AI sentiment out there in the world.
I'd caution about projecting Western Ai attitudes onto the rest of the world. Some countries are very excited and optimistic about the future it brings, cultures and circumstances give rise to differences in opinions.
One of many results showing a similar pattern, largely bifurcated along "the west" vs "the rest", or "modern economies" vs "third world" ("common terms" used even though I'm not a fan of them)
https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report/publi...
Even in the western world most anti-ai sentiment ends on social media.
People are anti-ai cuz it's easy. They say something, repost or like something, and they're anti-ai. Then they turnaround and use AI in their email or calendar or to make funny pics or whatever. They watch AI generated content and engage with it.
Anti-AI is pretty NIMBY. People want AI, they just don't want AI data centers in their area or to give up their use/privilege.
> Even in the western world most anti-ai sentiment ends on social media
No. There's a lot of local regulations being enacted to prevent datacenter builds.
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