Those people aren't about openness. They seem to be members of "AI will kill us all" cult.
The real path to AI safety is regulating applications, not fundamental research and making fundamental research very open (which they are against).
The real path to AI safety is regulating applications, not fundamental research and making fundamental research very open (which they are against).
The singularity folks have been continuously wrong about their predictions. A decade ago, they were arguing the labor market wouldn't recover because the reason for unemployment was robots taking our jobs. It's unnerving to see that these people are having gaining some traction while actively working against technological progress.