Sam Altman Attack Suspect Had 'Anti-AI' Document with CEO Names(wsj.com)
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Sam Altman Attack Suspect Had 'Anti-AI' Document with CEO Names
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-altman-attack-suspect-had-anti-ai-document-with-ceo-names-authorities-say-74ddfe88
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I don’t think people in SF (especially those in the AI thought bubble) realize how much anti-AI sentiment has exploded. Go on any social media site besides HN or r/chatgpt or xitter and you’ll find that the cocktail mixer is largely viewed as a folk hero.
I listened in person when Altman was in Berlin for a talk, and the whole room besides me and like two people were clapping like he won an Olympic medal, while I thought to myself, “This reminds me of the scene from Deep Blue Sea where the girlfriend of the head scientist is bragging to LL Cool J’s character Preacher how brilliant her bf is as a scientist.”
And then the cam zooms to a picture of the silhouette of the scientist standing on a wall with the back to the audience, pissing into the sea, and then pans back to Preacher’s face, and he goes totally unimpressed:
"How smart can he be? He is pissing against the wind."
The scientist dies btw, because he was indeed less smart than everyone thought he is, but you need to watch the movie to see that. Not gonna spoil how, it was amusing tho.
That’s Altman. He is pissing against the wind.
Everyone is talking about how AI will displace jobs. Oracle just fired 30k people with an email because of their AI investment. LinkedIn CEOs bragging every day how AI replaced some of their teams.
Losing your job, especially in the US without a proper social system to dampen the fall for a large part of people who have saved less than a grand in the bank, means they lose their home, they lose the ability to pay for their healthcare, which means they lose their ability to earn money and compete for jobs on the market with people who simply had the luck of being healthy.
For those people, AI, how it is currently projected, is indeed a matter of life and death. And none of them want to basically get murdered by proxy.
If Altman really was that smart, OpenAI would have pushed for everyone losing their jobs because of AI having a path in front of them they can walk without falling off the cliff and drowning into the sea below, before talking about how many humans this technology is going to replace to make rich people even richer.
But he didn’t, neither did any of the other CEOs who have the ear of the President and frequently dine with him.
What billionaires value more than money is their freedom. That’s something the people can take away from them. You can develop your ai future throwing average Joe under the bus from a bunker, but no longer leave your home or send your kids to school. Without proper external stimuli, those "great minds" will just wilt away.
When Brazil threatened Musk with an international arrest warrant, which would have gotten him stuck in the US for an unforeseeable amount of time, he backed off really fast from mobilising his X army, causing trouble for Brazilian judges.
You and I would probably use the Democracy toolbox to fight against Altman if we had to, but I bet we two are also not starving or no longer able to buy a simple asthma inhaler to keep breathing when we lose our jobs.
This is a problem AI companies created for themselves, and I wonder why they can’t solve it with AI.
Would be a great use case, wouldn’t it?
And then the cam zooms to a picture of the silhouette of the scientist standing on a wall with the back to the audience, pissing into the sea, and then pans back to Preacher’s face, and he goes totally unimpressed:
"How smart can he be? He is pissing against the wind."
The scientist dies btw, because he was indeed less smart than everyone thought he is, but you need to watch the movie to see that. Not gonna spoil how, it was amusing tho.
That’s Altman. He is pissing against the wind.
Everyone is talking about how AI will displace jobs. Oracle just fired 30k people with an email because of their AI investment. LinkedIn CEOs bragging every day how AI replaced some of their teams.
Losing your job, especially in the US without a proper social system to dampen the fall for a large part of people who have saved less than a grand in the bank, means they lose their home, they lose the ability to pay for their healthcare, which means they lose their ability to earn money and compete for jobs on the market with people who simply had the luck of being healthy.
For those people, AI, how it is currently projected, is indeed a matter of life and death. And none of them want to basically get murdered by proxy.
If Altman really was that smart, OpenAI would have pushed for everyone losing their jobs because of AI having a path in front of them they can walk without falling off the cliff and drowning into the sea below, before talking about how many humans this technology is going to replace to make rich people even richer.
But he didn’t, neither did any of the other CEOs who have the ear of the President and frequently dine with him.
What billionaires value more than money is their freedom. That’s something the people can take away from them. You can develop your ai future throwing average Joe under the bus from a bunker, but no longer leave your home or send your kids to school. Without proper external stimuli, those "great minds" will just wilt away.
When Brazil threatened Musk with an international arrest warrant, which would have gotten him stuck in the US for an unforeseeable amount of time, he backed off really fast from mobilising his X army, causing trouble for Brazilian judges.
You and I would probably use the Democracy toolbox to fight against Altman if we had to, but I bet we two are also not starving or no longer able to buy a simple asthma inhaler to keep breathing when we lose our jobs.
This is a problem AI companies created for themselves, and I wonder why they can’t solve it with AI.
Would be a great use case, wouldn’t it?
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Ted was right