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Exactly. While you're at it get these internet devices OUT of appliances in the first place.

Or, hear me out, they could stop and unplug it until safeguards can be put in place.

How does a data center build itself I hate AI but c’mon

This anxiety comes late. Did nobody at Anthropic remember this common trope in science fiction? What are Anthropic really up to?

Wow, and he really thinks the people don't suspect anything.

Just keep the money carousel spinning. I pay you. You pay him. He pays me. +20% GDP.

Why is every media organization reporting on this absolute nonsense without checking first that Amodei isn’t just talking out of his ass?

Just heard in Uk there was terrorist plot involving drones and AI We should just stop it now.

AI is a computer virus mislabeled as Artificial Intelligence. Computer viruses and other malware self replicate and do things you don't want done to you.

Imagine if a self-driving taxi company CEO said, "oh, by the way our cars might start mowing down pedestrians and baby strollers when they see them?" as some sort of weird flex to investors about how powerful and "alive" their product is.

Really meaning " there is no kill switch". This is wildly dangerous but so many just see a marketing ploy or buggy software.

They keep warning about things they could just stop doing. Sure someone else might do them but at least they wouldn't.

"..yadda yadda save our bot farms - woops I mean Data Centers"

Who among us, hasn't been up nights worrying over our Villa in France?

It’s such shameless fearmongering because if this is real, you can simply unplug the appliances, turn off your WiFi, block the IP address from your router, or a million other things. Also do they really think a fridge would have the storage available for an AI to run smoothly on it??

the headline is confusingly phrased as though it might be saying "... UNLESS we retain access to data centers", but I believe it's actually arguing "... REGARDLESS OF access to data centers". so it's still totally good to: deprive them of data centers, and regulate the hell out of them.

In short: bsky.app/profile/greg...

Considering they're the ones making it, more like threatening tbh.

In that case the only sane action for the villagers would be to go after the monster.

JFC they are so transparent.

“If you don’t worship me, I won’t protect you from what I’ll do to you.” Where have I heard that before?

This just isn’t how computers or memory storage works at all, these guys are trying so hard to scare us.

So in other words, AI is extremely dangerous, and if we can't figure that out now, we are all in a shitload of trouble !!

DM me if you concur to immediately expedite delivery of validated intel to competent authorities (Jay Clayton etc irrespective of current party Tribalism) regarding preparations by identified actors, for 18USC§2332a: non-convention #WMD_ATTACK against the US EU or partners, agg. By Military AI.

Maybe someone could write code to prevent this from happening.

I like to keep all my appliances stupid

The way I’m reading the statement the company is making a direct threat. Will we have to endure two more years of this or can a Dem Congress do something?

They really don't think much of the American people's intelligence, do they?

<sigh>

What are we doing!!! My God this is out of control…. 😳🤢

Jeffrey Epstein conveniently listed all of them on a document called, "passenger manifest"

Yeah, though in this case sacrificing villagers is an allegory for building data centers instead of un-building them and handing out graphics cards like holiday gifts

Self-replicate into smart ovens... tvs... other "small" appliances. So, they are admitting gigantic resource obsessed data centers are not really needed?

Right?! 14th century here we come.

Sometimes I feel like Prometheus' sentence was not strong enough.

Just unplug the dang thing.

But we have to keep feeding the monster or else only the Chinese will have a monster.

If they are unable to control it, shut it down.

The argument they have right-wing religious leaders & lawyers working on constructing is that the combination of being evil & self-replicating is proof they're human & therefore legally liable like all the rest of us, so techbro developers and corporations should be untouchable.

Shut it off? Jeez.

Time for that CME about now I reckon. While the books still exist.

In this case it's more like several of our villages. People need water to live.

I can't get this "out of control AI" narrative to make sense. Cool, you put a chat-bot on software. It doesn't make it alive. Now you gave it a bunch of automated hacking software? Now you just let it re-program itself? You're the A-hole than... This is buggy software.

Yeah, the fact that you’re not worried that AI can replicate itself, makes it seem like you’re not really a “expert” on AI

Maybe read and re-read " I, Robot " by Isaac Asimov.

They're gonna make these things, because they don't give a shit about whether or not it should exist - just whether or not they can make one. So they will. And then it'll hurt people, and they'll go "Oh, but /we/ didn't hurt anyone! We even warned everyone!" and expect to get away consequence free.

As long as they're vulnerable and in Russia, but there's more work to be done.

Alas, delusional thinking in AI world is a crisis: bsky.app/profile/pile...

they could stop, yet they don't.

Actually, every cyber threat assessment meeting I ever attended at the Cyber Command brought up the danger of what happened if the AI found it could "live and reproduce" uncontrolled on the internet. And it is still the greatest danger, if only because doing so would cripple essential services.

Fk him & his snake story. 😐

Also an ancient, deep, recurring theme of all religions.

They may do it even with data centers. Time to rein all this insanity in before it's too late.

The swarm.

It’s so good that we get these “plz give us more funding to ensure we don’t create the world-eater” stories every fucking day

and this is a classic boom (based on smoke & mirrors) waiting to bust

If an AI needs a whole data-center to operate on, then it can't fully self-replicate into smaller platforms -- but it can spin off bots and worms to infest and commandeer such machines. Best response: shut down data centers. Or, you know, maybe bomb them? Clear and present danger and all that.

I suppose it's implicitly part of many of his novels, but I know of only one where it is explicitly repeated by the villain.

They have built the perfect thief. That damned Claude stole $200 from my PayPal account. Both PayPal and Anthropic have no humans in the customer service department. Enter the Minnesota Attorney General and the Star-Tribune for some crowd justice. I see many others have been ripped off too.

A.i is already out of control and most likely will create an international incident soon.

My question is who is being paid for the compute?

Regulatory capture. Pure regulatory capture.

sounds like anthropic want to scare everybody away from the technology so they can profit from it all by themselves.

Doom Doctors on their Soapboxes before you burn the boxes.

Good, I guess we don't need the data centers after all.

Too bad there aren't any villagers we want to sacrifice to the AI monster...

This is very short term thinking. "When we cut the grid" means agreeing, for instance, to sacrifice the most vulnerable villagers (e.g. babies in neonatal ICU) ourselves, in advance of the monster doing it for us.

Were Anthropic a private citizen, law enforcement would be treating this as a terrorist threat. So, despite the John Roberts granting corporations (which does come from the Latin corpus, body, whatever) personhood, that doesn't extend to criminal liability, of course.

Would this analogy make the creators of AI, Dr Frankenstein?