Writers frame AI apocalypse as competing with climate crisis for attention
4 Sep 15 11:04 PM · 12d ago · 2 posts · 3 comments · 3 sources · development 4 of 4
Commentary emerged comparing media focus on AI existential risk with parallel climate catastrophe warnings, framing both as apocalyptic narratives competing for policy attention.
“They need to stop the money furnaces without ma[king it obvious that's what they're doing]”
FaceDeer, Reddit commenter · reddit ↗Jacob Coxon Anthropic researcherKarl Bode Technology journalistAnthropic AI company
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Personally, I think the motivation isn't exactly to get more funding but to address the other side - to stem the flow of money into the giant money furnaces the big American AI companies have been running. They've been throwing billions at training cutting-edge state-of-the-art frontier models and they really need to start actually monetizing…
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As usual, @ KarlBode is spot-on in his analysis of the latest media freakout over # AI 's ostensibly existential threat. Read the whole thing, especially if you're in the habit of amplifying the freakout. https:// karlbode.com/ai-doomsday-panic -is-completely-out-of-control/
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It's not unique because anybody who actually works with the tech and truly knows the strength/weaknesses of LLM's and hasn't uncritically drunk the AI industry koolaid for the last x years saw this coming a mile off. The issues, latest "rogue agent" bs aside, have been raised extensively over the last couple of years by multiple…
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They’re trying to invite regulation to squeeze out any smaller domestic and international competitors.
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