Every single Anthropic and OpenAI employee retweeting or otherwise agreeing with Coxon is full of shit. "Hi, I work at [insert AI lab name here], and Jacob is right. I'm scared. There's a 10% chance humanity ends in the next 10 years. I am continuing to work on this technology that might end humanity in 10 years. Ask me anything."
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Yeah, they want to prevent independent AI use such as local models so you have to buy their product.
Seriously, from no social media presence to CNN interview in under like a day? Wild
Swedish media reports essentially the same, which shows the importance of targetting outlets like WSJ or NYT - those media orgs might not have enormous reach but they have credibility. It's usually a safe bet to repeat stuff they have repeated.
I don't know if there is any professional journalist in Sweden who has sat down and researched these networks. It's not surprising if not, they're not that big a deal here (in fact, "AI" as an election issue is basically non-existent, the election is on Sunday)
YT suggested a Dwarkesh interview with Ajeya Cotra next to your video. Cotra is A UC Berkeley grad who works at OpenPhil and promotes and is promoted by Kelsey Piper.
She's also Paul Chistiano's spouse.
Never heard of him and can't find him in the archives of SneerClub or TechTakes just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Christiano
"10% chance the moon will kill humanity in the next 10 years.", says NASA space exploration lead.
Most read article on BBC this morning: AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC
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