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AI Experts Already Doomsday Prepping for When AI Takes Out the Entire Financial System: Start stocking up, folks! (futurism.com)
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[–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (4 children)

What are you talking about. The engineers the ground level folk that a developing this stuff yes they're paid highly but they're not millionaires by any stretch in the imagination. Building a system that will crash the entire economic system of the Earth is not beneficial to them.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    At a 2tr$ targeted valuation (yes that number is silly but it's also the IPO target) 1$mil is only a .05% equity stake and engineers usually get .1-.2%

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    Only if they divest. Which they can't really do because it isn't actually clear that the shares will increase in value long-term in fact dive into shares would put a scare on the market.

    But that's not really my point, my point is if the AI completely collapses the financial system then by its definition a lot of money isn't really going to motivate people not as they truly believed money would become worthless.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    The main engineers buildings this stuff are millionaires. They’ve been making probably $400k on the low end and we know of salaries over a million on the high end.

    Still not enough to survive an actual world collapse though.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    The average salary of the 60+ people left at character.ai is $1m, according to the news about disney buying them. Even a bankrupt one can make millionaires.

    The hundreds, perhaps thousands of people working on ai are millionaires. I dont know that being a millionaire is a great sign of anything anymore, but theyll have done it with just a few years of work.

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