AI Learned to Lie Deliberately (but it’s kinda funny)
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Do we take the risks of AI seriously enough? I think not. But I was recently educated that the debate about AI risks is a deliberately engineered panic to keep investments up, by suggesting that artificial general intelligence is just around the corner. The communication researcher Nirit Weiss-Blatt has gone so far to claim that “Effective Altruism billionaires spend millions of dollars brainwashing students into believing that "superhuman AI systems" will end humanity.” Or maybe she’s an AI brainwashing us into believing we’re brainwashed.
Justified or not, AI worry is making some people’s life miserable. “The logical thing to me would be to go around and tell everyone I see that the end of the world is near” “I am so stressed by this future, like I really have troubles to sleep and eat and focus” You find these statements on discord server of PauseAI, a group of people who, well, want to pause AI.
One, who sought mental health support writes “I now feel happy and am enjoying life even though I think it may be our last year as humanity.” Whatever he’s taking, I want it too.
You might say maybe this is just a group of people predisposed for anxiety who are taking AI as a modern target of their obsession, but there are many people who work in the field who are really worried, too.
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