They want to regulate away their biggest fear: open weights LLMs.
And, as a bonus, draw attention away from how harmfully Big Tech has packaged LLMs for the public. That’s the dangerous part.
That’s all the Terminator meme is. I’m not surprised influencers are being payed, given all the previous astroturfing in this space.
I know I'm not the only one who has been scratching their head at all the doomsday cries around AI that have suddenly rose up. Especially as it seems as if all those calls are coming from inside the house.
Play on fear hard enough and you have people not worrying about the actual limitations of LLMs. My worry is that they shift the goalposts hard enough that instead of them asking for a bailout, the narrative becomes them being nationalized for our safety with guys like Elon sitting at the head of a new governmental department or something. Government buys all this dead weight of an industry and the tech fascists get a permanent seat at the table.
i find it convenient that at the same time that AI cluster supposedly broke out of their “secure” sand box and “hacked” huggingface, “on their own”, as the AI ceo’s all individually wrote a paper about how there should be legislation constricting ai development in very specific yet seemingly the exact same ways, then they all had a meeting to agree on how to lobby the government, at the same time i am getting paid anti ai advertisements and news articles.
I used to follow hossenfelder's channel on youtube after hearing her on an episode of the Mindscape podcast. It seemed like a good place to get a skeptical point of view on some issues. Over time it became apparent to me that it waa pretty much just skepticism for the sake of skepticism. I don't know of any actual controversy she is involved in, though some of the other comments here seem to imply there is some, but I definitely didn't get good vibes.
Notice how the big AI companies are now in on the 'scary AI' bandwagon, just because they see the impending AI bubble cracking, and they need a scapegoat in the form of government regulation to blame, when it eventually cracks.
can someone tell me who this influencer is? I already know enough about Sabine Hossenfelder to have an opinions about her.
Yeah, this is paid for by the AI companies to put roadblocks up for any competition.
AI-pushers: "The Apocalypse is nigh!" mom, tired: "we have The Apocalypse at home..." The Apocalypse at home: CAPITALISM
Sabine is an idiot fraud
The video isn't about how this is all BS, conclusion from section 1:
They reviewed roughly 1,250 papers on AI self-improvement and found that 74% of them were published in 2026 alone. This field is moving extremely fast. Anyone telling you this is all nonsense has just not read the literature. Is this recursive self-improvement RSI in the bounded sense? Absolutely yes. Al systems are improving themselves within well-defined tasks and the improved versions are producing further improvements. This is a real thing. It is demonstrated that is in the papers and none of this existed 5 years ago.
The caveat in the second section is:
We have much weaker evidence that it can decide what the research problem should be. And that gap, I cannot stress this enough, between optimization and judgment, between execution and scientific taste is the gap that we need to close before anything resembling an autonomous AI scientist could exist. And this is not a small gap
That's still scary, yeah it probably won't lead to human extinction, but it has serious implications for both economic and social life moving forward
Offered money by whom exactly?
Data centers are coal/methane pigs. AI will (help) kill us. Just not in the way that's being suggested.
I think all the anxiety around AI would significantly diminish if we had trust worthy leaders in tech overseeing it all.
Like, I'd have trusted the google of the early 00s.
Lol!! This is literally her AI channel. So, someone was dumb enough to offer her AI bot money, to say that AI is bad?
Video too long. Is there an AI summary?
I've been standing on a soap box on a street corner for fifteen years holding a sign saying "The End Is Nigh" and nobody paid me nuttin'!". /s
The "I was offered money" thing is the least of this video.
It's mainly a pretty through, hard-nosed analysis around the real risks of runaway AI self-improvement anchored on what has actually happened so far and beyond that if a super AI was actually thus achieved, the risks of actual Human Extinction being the results, though it's mainly about the former.
Several papers are quoted and everything is look at through the lens of Logic and the Scientific Method rather than alarmism or simple dismissal.
The metaphor at the very end around "Don't Look Up" around what scientists see in the telescope doesn't actually work in terms of Physics, but that's just a personal peeve.
PS: Also this is not the Social and Financial analysis on the timing of this sudden alarm and the motivations of the various actors in the current Financial context around AI that most of us are doing here, it's purely looking at the research and drawing conclusions on what the status of things is right now and then contrasting that with the assured statements with actual timings on the risks of runaway self-improving AI from people who, frankly, should've known better than to say such things.
If AI is so dangerous it needs to be immediately banned. The only allowed usage (If any) is research and it is heavily restricted, with heavy oversight from multiple governments. Otherwise its just bullshit
That was fairly long (for me) but a great video to watch fully. She has a nuanced take and it's worth hearing completely.
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