Essay reaches Hacker News front page, draws large comment thread
1 Sep 14 12:15 PM · 13d ago · 1 article · 3 posts · 4 comments · 3 sources · development 1 of 2
The post is submitted to Hacker News, gains 121 points and 157 comments, and is cross-posted by users on Mastodon, generating a wide-ranging debate over whether AI doom rhetoric is sincere, self-serving, or both.
“Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.”
Jacob Coxon, resigned pretraining researcher · hn ↗Erkan Saka Media scholar, essay authorEvan Hubinger Head of alignment science, AnthropicJacob Coxon Former pretraining researcher, OpenAI and Anthropic
Sam Altman OpenAI CEO
Dario Amodei Anthropic CEO
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> I do not doubt that these people are sincere in some private, psychological sense ... . As a media scholar, what interests me is not whether Hubinger believes his own number. What interests me is what this genre of utterance does in the world ... . My complaint is not that these statements are alarming. It is that they are apocalyptic in form…
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The timing of the AI doom narrative could not come as a more suspect time. Chinese labs are releasing open models that are nipping at the heals of the frontier models. Anthropic and OpenAI know these frontier class open weight models can threaten their valuations by changing inference to a commodity where the provider who can serve the best models…
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Consider the messaging it took to attract AI researchers to OpenAI in the beginning, the exodus to Anthropic, and why Google, Meta, etc fail to recruit top researchers and the retain them. Reconcile all of this with the mammoth valuations of Anthropic and (previously non-profit) OpenAI and it all starts sounding a lot like "don't be evil." These…
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I thought that too for a long time, but after the Hugging Face attack and given the proximity to Anthropic IPO, if this was hype then they are morons. This is guaranteed to cause massive backlash.
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Can anyone from a lab anonymously confirm they have or are insanely close to real-time weight modifications and still using the same architecture every other lab is using (transformers)?
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