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There are a lot of hyperbolic comments of this sort in this thread. Has this topic selected for people who hold these views or is ai fear growing?

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I think maybe the bubble of software engineers on this site who use AI to code for them don't see how other people, who's jobs don't rely on AI, view the actions of these companies as reckless, at best, and often crossing into actively harmful.

1. Ironically enough, I (GP) am a software developer.

2. How exactly do our jobs depend on a thing which has been around for far less time?

It’s not hyperbolic if you’ve paid attention to the details and development of those security incidents, and the inability for that industry to regulate itself

It’s happening on X as well, all the e/acc foomers are getting nervous.

In my understanding, "e/acc" usually means "full speed ahead, humans aren't the optimal species anyway" for whatever bizarre definition of "optimal" they use, so my model predicts that they would welcome this development. Could you confirm if that's what you meant?

They’re nervous because they don’t see a more optimal species on the horizon, they see alignment/training accident turning us into paperclips.

Even foomer Bill Gates today is saying we should slow down - yea you guys should have listened years ago, but you guys laughed called us all doomers. Too late now.

> Too late now.

Thankfully this is not an asteroid hurling towards Earth, or another natural unpreventable natural disaster. The state of the art of AIs is being advanced by flesh and blood people with constant effort, which makes stopping very much still a possibility.

Can you give me a single realistic idea of how?

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