[danny_codes]

The difference is that people building atomic weapons knew what they were building. OpenAI/Anthropic have no idea how emergent intelligence works. They're just running in the dark towards the cliff. Leaving it in their hands is the same risk as leaving it to any random guy, because random guy and the labs have the same understanding of what they're building. I'm tired of us treating labs like they're somehow uniquely good at AI. They are not. They simply have enough capital to train. If training was affordable they would have no edge whatsoever.

[whack]

I'm not claiming that OpenAI is worthy of trust. The safest course of action is to either stop all AI research immediately, or have it be highly regulated by an international body. The most dangerous course of action is to give every single individual the ability to create their own variant of an ASI