[ryandrake]

> Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei routinely says that half of white collar jobs are going to disappear because of his technology. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, noted that “AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there’ll be great companies.” And Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, said during an earnings call that “This is a revolution. Some people can get their heads cut off.”

This is the sound of people who know they’re safe high up on the economic totem pole, safely out of physical harm’s way, and don’t need to care a shred about what the public thinks.

[amanaplanacanal]

I figure it's just part of their marketing, bragging about how powerful their products are. I fully expect the balloon to pop, but if it doesn't, and people start building guillotines, won't they all have the surprised pikachu face.

[bigbadfeline]

> but if it doesn't, and people start building guillotines,

AI can build guillotines better, faster, cheaper - did you miss Karp's quote?

While people waste their time in pleasant hallucinations about what people would do, they'd find themselves in the Soylent Green factory with no way out.

[kjkjadksj]

People who have nothing to fear wouldn’t be building bunkers

[tanseydavid]

"I have like structures, but I wouldn't say a bunker," Altman added without clarifying what these structures were.

[whynotmaybe]

Louis XVI was at the top, the public made him understand nobody's safe.

[ofcourseyoudo]

I think it's more just bragging about how "powerful" their companies are while knowing they're on top of a bubble that will burst and they'll have to get a bailout from Daddy Trump.