AI is already proven dangerous enough to be ruining individual lives, pushing people towards suicide, feeding their psychoses, etc.

However, whether the concerns from the article are a lie or not is secondary to the fact that these conversations are convenient for AI companies. These types of discussions serve AI companies in a few ways: A company owned kill switch gives them leverage. Altman is using discussions around safety as an excuse for not being ready for an IPO yet. It also provides free marketing that overstates the abilities of AI.

There's an obvious coordination problem here: if you decide to stop your research for safety and your competitors don't, you have just burned your company without actually improving the world's outcomes. There's also an obvious solution to this problem: convince the government to force both you and your competitors to pay more attention to safety. Anthropic is doing that.

Trains have had dead man switches since the beginning

Should we ban trains?