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AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC (www.bbc.com)
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I'm not an AI techie and I'm not well educated on LLMs/AI in general. The issue I'm having is the dichotomy between how people talk about it. I've heard completely opposite ends of the spectrum. From AI is quickly becoming advanced enough to threaten human society, all the way to its a glorified dictionary/search engine that can't really do much of anything. I know Lemmy has a steep anti-AI slant. But, can someone talk about this in a way I can wrap my head around why the divide seems so big?

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[–] 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

We're talking about mid-tier employees that left the company.... I mean i guess there incentives could be to pump their shares they undoubtably have... They're all quite wealthy now in context. Maybe he just wanted 5 minutes of fame...or maybe they understand the trajectory of the technology. Maybe they are genuinely concerned and we should at least acknowledge that?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    There are motives for whistleblowers to lie. Book sales, political careers, other attention. The executives they accused, though, just said they were right

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    of course there's motivation for everything, which one are you assigning this individual and based on what technological disagreement?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    when the boss who is being whistleblowed against admits the whistleblower is right, you can believe both that there are problems. I can't think of any other case in history where this happened. The disgruntled ex-employee smear is a common defensive move instead.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Thats sound logic, i can't disagree with that. I still think having a machine that can automate scripting of malware is pretty dangerous to the digital society we set up. If the grid fails and the financial system collapses, I'm gonna be okay... Are you?

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