Anthropic CEO calls for immediate slowdown in AI development

Posted by doctoboggan 8 hours ago

Counter12Comment6OpenOriginal

Comments

Comment by Rzor 6 hours ago

Official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49672510

Comment by JumpCrisscross 8 hours ago

This is the same "stop me before I shoot grandma" and "we're going to blow up the world" tripe these guys start repeating before any fundraising.

What if we take them at their word and convert them into utilities?

Comment by cyanydeez 7 hours ago

what if it's dumber: They're not making money, actual improvements are sigmoid, and since the real TAM is never going to be repaid _and_ they have a dangerous enough product on their hands they're under two different pials of liablity.

Comment by jaggs 8 hours ago

Man, this pre-IPO propaganda is getting boring!

Comment by 4d4m 2 hours ago

Wake me up at ipo this all feels like a soap opera show and outsourced pr

Comment by 1attice 7 hours ago

Reading the other two comments on this post: the vibe is dismissive and confident. The gallery is certain that this is marketing.

I worked alongside AI engineers at $Mag7 before abandoning ship (way back in the day, 2022 -- right but early!) and I assure you, as so many others have, we all have P(doom) > 0 and the more you know, generally, the higher the value.

We're nerds. None of us can market shit, and none of us care. Most of us can barely make so much as a functional UX without assistance, let alone a marketing conspiracy, which kinda was the point behind making a machine that could do it for us.

The closest I've seen to a successful takedown of the vibe is Cal Newport's most recent NYT op-ed (too lazy to google up the url but you obvi can). It's just this side of possible that we all over indexed on the Sequences or something, but post-HF-attack, I thought we had all mostly discounted that possibility, as the attack is well documented and the danger-sign is unfakeable.

What I expect is actually driving the nonchalance is simple exhaustion. It's wearying to be frightened all the time. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't be.