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Bill Gates says unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’ in call for regulation [in fearmarketing stunt] (www.theguardian.com)

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I don't understand why Bill Gates still feels the need to do marketing work, he is already rich he doesn't need to do commercials and blatantingly shill for a product for money like this.

Also the ides that anyone should listen to Bill Gates about needing or not needing government regulation, nationalization or trustbusting is actually insane.

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago (18 children)

Is it just me or does this "AI Doomsday" talk seem like coordinated messaging?

Chatbots that are smart enough to destroy humanity would be really impressive, right? "Powerful enough to change the world" and "powerful enough to destroy the world" are similar claims and maybe they're switching to the second one because nobody is buying the first anymore.

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[–] grifferz@social.bitfolk.com 0 points 1 week ago

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I think it's fairly likely that we will see a very large scale calamity due to misuse of AI, such as a nation's power grid going down for days. Something that causes multiple attributable deaths. I think that AI companies know this and so are begging for gov regulation with doom talk, because they know that (a) no government is actually capable of that right now; (b) it pumps the stock; (c) when the biggie hits they will be able to say they asked for regulation that didn't come.