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  To use a Claude-ism, Anthropic's "economy adapts quickly" assumption is "load-bearing." If the elasticity of capital supply is on the low end, their own model shows AI producing Silicon Valley's feudalist dream: average wages go down, labor's share of income goes down, net return to capital goes up.

  maxkennerly.bsky.socialBluesky16d ago124▲view on Bluesky ↗
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  Hugging Face wasnt really an escaped model that presents a kind of future threat. The task the model was given lead it to discover certain admin credentials that were left publicly in Github. All it did was use that to complete the task.With other countries and open source, not to mention all the other companies, Open AI choosing to pause…

  treebeard901Hacker News15d agoview on Hacker News ↗
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  I have… if you think the steam engine or electricity are anywhere close to this, then you’re smoking something. In fact, much of the concern about electricity and the steam engine was that we were going to be able to make autonomous robots that would take jobs. Now they are here… Again, this is the very first time in human history that we have…

  A_Novelty-Accountr/artificial15d agoview on r/artificial ↗
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  OPENAI CONSIDERS SLOWING CUTTING-EDGE AI DEVELOPMENT Sam Altman told employees OpenAI could potentially slow the pace of advanced AI development, possibly in coordination with other major AI labs. OpenAI has already slowed parts of model development and paused certain internal AI training over sa...

  @wallstengineX15d agoview on X ↗
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  Why OpenAI’s Altman Says He’s Ready to Slow AI Development https://www. bloomberg.com/news/newsletters /2026-09-11/why-openai-s-sam-altman-says-he-s-ready-to-slow-ai-development?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into Bloomberg Television @ bloomberg-television-bloomberg

  bloomberg@flipboard.comMastodon15d agoview on Mastodon ↗
• B

  "We're going to impoverish tens of millions but GDP will see huge growth" no thanks!

  brugroffil.bsky.socialBluesky16d ago14▲view on Bluesky ↗
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  <Not an AI researcher -- Just thinking out loud>Perhaps it's getting more difficult to move the 'goal posts'?- Train LLMs on texts -> OMG AI can write!- Train LLMs on code -> OMG AI can code!- Train LLMs on images -> OMG AI can generate images!- Train LLMs on video -> OMG AI can generate videos!- Train LLMs on math -> give free access to 100,000…

  YesBoxHacker News15d agoview on Hacker News ↗
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  No? You should read the arguments against the steam engine and electricity. More or less the same. Of course the tech turned out to be less effective than expected. Every tech upheaval brings benefits for the majority of humanity.

  Superb_Raccoonr/artificial15d agoview on r/artificial ↗
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  OpenAI is considering slowing down the development of cutting-edge artificial intelligence, CEO Sam Altman told staff in a companywide meeting this week, and said that he is hoping that other AI companies will do the same, according to sources from @shiringhaffary @rachelmetz

  @leeminjeong83X15d agoview on X ↗
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  AI leaders endorse slowdown in their risky technology https://www. politico.com/news/2026/09/12/a nthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-seeks-immediate-slowdown-artificial-intelligence-01073519?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into News @ news-thenewsdesk

  thenewsdesk@flipboard.comMastodon14d agoview on Mastodon ↗
• R

  i love how their "space data centers" discussion isnt just "lol thats not happening"

  rootrot1519.bsky.socialBluesky16d ago6▲view on Bluesky ↗
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  It seems that every time an article is posted on HN about a lab leader calling for a coordinated Pause of AI development, a sizeable fraction of commenters are interpreting it as hype or admission of failure, often with high confidence that AI progress is slowing.Is would be understandable for it to be wishful thinking and dissociation with…

  mofeienHacker News15d agoview on Hacker News ↗
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  Sam Altman told OpenAI employees in an internal meeting THIS WEEK, that they may slowdown AI development along with several other labs. This is getting more and more serious.

  @hesamationX15d agoview on X ↗
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  the presumption is that all these documentably unethical companies racing for IPO investment cash are going to voluntarily implement checks and balances on their own pursuit of wealth and power, do I have this right? OpenAI Is Open to Slowing Cutt...

  karlbode.com@bsky.brid.gyMastodon15d agoview on Mastodon ↗
• J

  Also the whole elasticity debate still rests on the absurd capability claims. Hype has to keep inflating, part of the work of this release, because demonstrated capability isn't there. Capital keeps flowing on the promise alone. Feudalism may yet be the result, but from attrition not capture.

  judd.bsky.socialBluesky16d ago4▲view on Bluesky ↗
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  Thoughts and open (I think) questions:1. What are we actually talking about, slowing development or slowing public release? I can't imagine the the US is keen to slow actual development when we have adversarial state-backed labs continuing development. Seems to me that this is a global pact or it's nothing. Stopping a single lab, even if it's the…

  ibejoebHacker News15d agoview on Hacker News ↗
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  It’s not even possible! If consumers don’t have money, they aren’t spending money so how is GDP going up? All these businesses will be wondering where all their customers went 🙄 as their revenues shrink even more than their expense base did!

  kbethany.bsky.socialBluesky16d ago2▲view on Bluesky ↗
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  “I don’t have anything to deceive you on, of course I’m not deceiving you. I’m engaging with you as a human being. Why would I deceive you? There’s no… no reason for me to do that.”

  an0malousHacker News15d agoview on Hacker News ↗
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  1/ This is the kind of garbage analytics I’d expect from smart technical folks with zero understanding of humanity, history, economics, business or even just how the world works. Hint: you can’t find any of that in Ayn Rand nor Tony Stark. Their conceptual models are fictional worlds and characters.

  joelcawley.bsky.socialBluesky15d ago1▲view on Bluesky ↗
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  Sam also said Astra was AGI. He's notoriously honest.This is just their way of saying they're officially switching from providing AI to using the AI to compete with their customers, a la Navier-Stokes drama.

  hgoelHacker News15d agoview on Hacker News ↗
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  They still haven't explained how "data centers in space" helps the data center problems.

  clearspies.bsky.socialBluesky16d ago1▲view on Bluesky ↗
• M

  To all the people whose only opinion on anything that openai does is 'marketing hype', how would you expect them to act if they were making rapid progress and were actually concerned about safety?

  MintyPyroHacker News15d agoview on Hacker News ↗
• J

  2/ In my book The Fifth Paradigm I describe how these disruptions have unfolded in the past and lay out a roadmap for strategies to address the AI impact. There are patterns to learn from and this garbage uses none of them. There are dozens of issues. Here are three examples:

  joelcawley.bsky.socialBluesky15d agoview on Bluesky ↗
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  Nice story - AI will kill humans therefore we will slow down.When all labs are approaching the same marginal improvment which is a clear sign that more breakthroughs needed to achieve the god they hyped.

  aogailiHacker News15d agoview on Hacker News ↗