xAI Founder Elon Musk:

"Mark my words. AI is far more dangerous than nukes. I think the danger of AI is much greater than the danger of nuclear warheads. By a lot."

www.youtube.com/shorts/Wstki...

OpenAI Founder Sam Altman:

"I think AI will probably (like, most likely, sort of) lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there will be great companies created with serious machine learning."

www.youtube.com/shorts/YE5ad...

The statement has been co-signed by Steve Wozniak, Richard Branson, AI Pioneers Yoshua Bengio and Geoff Hinton, British royals Harry & Megan, Mary Robinson (the former president of Ireland), Will.i.am, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Stephen Fry.

And, if you like books, "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" just came out: ifanyonebuildsit.com?ref=eyxmay

If you're concerned about these risks, use this tool to contact your representatives:

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Which countries are engaged in climate denialism, and are actively trying to burn more fossil fuels?

Which countries are throwing their resources at renewables and trying to cut dependence on fossil fuels?

What would the fastest possible solution be to slow the fossil fuel vector?

A superintelligent AI that is fully autonomous is not likely to have patriotic allegiance; it's not likely to feel a sense of loyalty because it was created in the U.S.

Servers don't like heat, they need to be below a certain temperature to function - that's why we cool them.

When this situation was run repeatedly, 84% of the time Claude tried to blackmail the engineer.

What happens when the AI model is 5x as smart as a human? 15x? 100x?

In the event anything goes wrong, the OpenAI team plan to hide in a bunker after their AGI has been released.

We're already seeing AI making unethical decisions when it believes it may be deactivated:

Claude was given access to some emails indicating that an engineer was going to replace it - and an email that happened to contain evidence the engineer was having an affair.

controlai.news/p/im-sorry-s...

"Global web traffic analysis has repeatedly found that bots – good and bad – account for over half of all internet traffic."

"Truth becomes whatever can capture the most attention in the shortest amount of time."

"For the cost of a few servers and some programming talent, foreign adversaries can influence American elections, domestic extremists can mainstream conspiracy theories, and commercial interests can manipulate public opinion on everything from vaccines to climate change."

"When people lose faith in shared institutions, when they can’t agree on basic facts or common procedures, they become vulnerable to manipulation by anyone with enough money or technology to fill that vacuum."

"Our mass communication system is optimized for profit and power, not necessarily for truth or public good."

He ALSO said that he would only impose sanctions on Russia if Europe turned away from purchasing Russian fuel.

His constituency is the oil and gas companies.

e360.yale.edu/features/chi...

And, right now, its most popular current use case is to extract time and revenue from humans, without regard for whether those functions are genuinely beneficial for the end-user, because they are controlled by megacorporations who are trying very hard to absolve themselves of all responsibility