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Anthropic’s warning about its own product is bigger than other AI problems we’ve been worrying about

AI worry isn't anything new. We are worried about artificial intelligence taking jobs, about toys that seem too real to our kids, about mass surveillance of our every move. But Anthropic's warning about its own product is bigger than any of those singular problems. It is a call from inside the house that disaster is hiding right around the corner.

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Sam Altman’s second thoughts

The CEOs are more convinced than ever that powerful intelligence will arrive within the next few years. The public increasingly believes them — and is appalled by the implications. It seems strange to suggest that, amidst accelerating breakthroughs in AI model performance, everyone needs to calm down.

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Scott Aaronson reviews the movie “The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist”

He tries to hear out every faction: first the AI existential risk people, then the AI optimists and accelerationists like "Beff Jezos," then the "stochastic parrot" / "current harms" people like Emily Bender and Timnit Gebru, and finally the AI company CEOs (Altman, Amodei, and Hassabis were the three who agreed to be interviewed), with Yuval Noah Harari showing up from time to time to insert deepities.

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AI Actress Tilly Norwood Drops a Video—and It's Cringe on Steroids

The video not only looks fake, but creepy too—Tilly has a seasick smile and her nausea is palpably felt by the viewer.