AI doomsday marketing wank has the same vibe as preteens at a sleepover getting spooked by a ouija board.

I was on board with this article until they described all the power fantasies that techbros were having as facts. AI isn't going to kill us because it grows sentient and "gets ahold of nuclear codes"; AI will kill us through sheer, painful, ecological collapse as Techbros seek to scale their models ever larger with more datacenters. Either that, or the economy collapses first, killing the tech (and likely the Techbros), and leaving us to ecological collapse anyways because of 200 years of industrial ratfuckery on a planetary scale.

AI won't kill us because it's smart, it'll kill us because it's so, SO dumb.

Because they're fucking idiots and hype men...

They want people to believe this is true, so that they panic buy in.

This is reminiscent of tobacco execs saying tobacco doesn't cause cancer. They're not "experts" they're paid shills who will say anything to make the stick price go up.

Are these AI Experts in the room with us now?

Why fear artificial intelligence when natural stupidity is so much more powerful?

Right. If I had dumped all my money into AI stonks and was overall deeply invested into silicon valley I'd sell the doomer story, too. Keeps the bubble alive.

Meanwhile the REAL threat of the AI hype, i.e. overburdening ecosystems with ridiculously hungry data centers and putting children's sanity in the hands of a hallucinating sycophantic autofill can be entirely ignored because "AGI BAD SO WE MUST BUILD AGI".

That is a terrible gamble

Incorrect. They just know that the fake financial system is not linked to anything fundamental. That is what is going to collapse taking retirement savings with it.

What's all that nonsense about what's his face tidying up his affairs because he thinks AI is going to kill us all.

If it is going to kill us all I don't think updating your will is going to have any effect on anything. Such obvious hype, it's ridiculous.

"Our product is so amazingly brilliant it'll probably kill everyone everywhere" is exactly the kind of marketing that appeals to bosses.

Just ask it how many Rs are in blueberry, and run away while it has to think about it a while.

Or useless old people will be turned in to a soylent green to feed the working meat slaves.

So it's a race then, between AI's killing us thru high-tech malice, and we killing ourselves thru the same old stupidity?

"And may the best man win!"

Wow, that 55 year-old movie "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project" is getting scarier to watch!

I'd like to say this isn't true for my kid, but then he did buy that hot new Corvette...

This AI stuff really is just a tech sect

There's the rub. AI isn't going kill us. LLMs certainly aren't going to. But, humans will certainly kill humanity. And it is not going to be quick and certainly not painless. But eventually, it is going to be pretty inevitable.

if the ai experts think ai is gonna kill us. they are not experts they are delusional.

the only way it'll get us, is from using up our water and adding to climate change.

It is so weird that American techbros have generated their own little universe of heroes and villains that all fight each other but are clearly written by the same guy so they all ultimately support the same set of values and worldviews that clearly make no sense outside the one guys' mind.

Gotta say, Silicon Valley's writer is a complete hack and these effective altruism idiots aren't worth the ink any more than their supervillain counterparts are. The whole simplistic extrapolation to infinity nonsense is exhausting and pointless.

I am so much more worried about climate change or nuclear war being the killers. I presume AI experts are probably going through the same psychosis and such that anyone else who regularly uses it is going through.

AI is a digital set of instructions that can be written on paper. Biological brains are analog, by contrast, and there is currently no reason to think that digital computation can produce subjectivity.  

That’s good and bad. 

It’s good, because our approach to artificial intelligence (putting a lot of processing power into a Rube Goldberg machine) cannot “come alive.” Such a machine is like a calculator, unmotivated and inert.

That’s bad, because it will ALWAYS do what people tell it to do, the way a printer will print whatever you tell it to print. Such an intelligence will never develop normative understanding (or morality), never know that it is alive, because it is an inanimate process.

Correction: humans using AI will kill us, not AI itself.

How big is the intersection between "AI Experts" and rich assholes? My guess is that it is large.

Were they researching sci-fi?

I want a kiss from ai wifu on the lips before disintegration also if possible my dick in her usb port . 3.5mm will be enough

AI has not been invented yet. LLMs are not intelligent.

Climate change will kill us most likely.

We will probably be the last generation that lived lives of relative peace.

If we don't stop all emissions as well as retroactively remove all the emissions we put in the system then it will eventually kill us. This is going to keep spiraling out of control until the oceans acidify, followed by the death of almost all large animal life.

Turns out you don't need religion to suffer from religious hysteria.

im not saving for retirement because im a broke tranny and i can't be sure i won't be disappeared

Bullshit

As weird as this sound as a sales pitch, this is a sales pitch. This is just AI hype and nothing else. The only way AI is gonna kill us all is if we put it in charge of absolutely everything and it will accidentally kill us all by its sheer incompetence because AI is not AI, it's just a bunch of glorified algorithm strapped together with molten shit and duct tape.

These tech bros are just high on their own fucking copium, imagining that fucking Skynet is about to happen, when they at best just built Wheatley. AI is not gonna kill us all. We're quite fine on that front. However, these tech bros and capitalists making the decisions will.

Still, though, they might be right on not saving for their retirement if they continue doing these kinds of shit, because... Well, right now data centers for hallucination machines have prioritized access to water over people, it's taking away jobs left and right, it's scamming people... Let's just say, I'm afraid (I hope) people may "lose patience" eventually. 🙃

rookies

i gave up saving for retirement when it became clear we were going to do fuck all about climate change

Bullshit.

AI resource usage and waste heat is literally killing the single one planet we’re all living on, so yes.

We dont even need AI to kill us all. We were doing that just fine on our own.

God please let ai do it efficiently. Fucjing bullet for everyone's noggin and be done with it, way more humane than this shit.

Good. Maybe the tech oligarchs will actually start distributing their wealth now.

Holy click bait Batman!