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"surely it is insidious Chinese propaganda that's making normal people hate and fear us, instead of how we say stuff like this on main all the time" - the big American genAI companies

the frontier genAI companies really have completely lost the ability to identify when they're saying things that make them sound completely batshit and irresponsible to the general public. who will see something like this and go "well, if you think it'll kill us all, maybe stop building it?"

I don't actually *disagree* with what Jason Wolfe is saying here - we DO need to work together to deal with AI safety issues, we DO need caution and humility - but when this is coming from a person who has a very lucrative job at a company that's barreling full-steam ahead with these tools, well...

Thats because they do not believe the doom machine is real and want to engage in regulatory capture of the tech

which is just as bad in that it's some sick shit to pretend there's a doom machine as a means of blackmailing the public

its worse actually because they are trying to use the fear to do a regulatory capture

I think a missing part from the conversation is in how many scenarios an AI that goes rogue and might kill us all gets stopped by another AI. If they believe everyone is developing AI recklessly, but their AI is significantly more likely to be the solution, then it's rational to continue?

that's not really the argument they tend to make, though