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Americans in 2024: "People are greedy so it's literally impossible to stop a couple of AI companies from building doom machines that risk killing our friends and families we may as well lay down and die"
Americans in Puerto Rico in 2019: "Our governor was caught sending naughty
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@primalpoly
point of information- the ships fold space via the holtzman effect, the spice affords the navigators prescience to avoid obstacles in superluminal travel
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Major metropolitan city, just asked two security guards in the parking garage elevator, “can I ask y’all a question real quick? What do you think about all this AI stuff?”
Middle aged woman responded first- “AI is going to put a lot of people out of work”
Young male responded,
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Our species has no idea what it’s doing, does it?
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Sam Kirchner with the group Stop AI has chained himself to the front gates of OpenAI’s main office and is live-streaming his call for immediate action to stop the threat of AI:
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@LowercaseJai
What does that mean,
to be in favor or disgrace
is to live in fear?
Favor debases:
we fear to lose it,
fear to win it.
So to be in favor or disgrace
is to live in fear.
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@SottoNocce
@ESYudkowsky
Ok so just to be clear here: you’re willing to kill my children on the off chance of saving your own hide?
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You don't have to be a highly paid AI developer to realize that building superhuman machine intelligence is a bad idea. In fact, you just have to be anyone but a highly paid AI developer.
In a 2015 blog post - before the founding of OpenAI -Sam Altman wrote:
"Development of superhuman machine intelligence is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity."
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I’m gonna put this out there for whoever needs to hear it-
We don’t have unlimited time to convince the MP’s or representatives to be the “adults in the room.” The situation is *right now* so urgent that the present inaction by our govs to shut down advanced ai dev globally
May 13th - Our second international protest.
SF, NY, London, Rome, Berlin, Den Haag, Stockholm, Paris.
The goal: convince the few powerful individuals (ministers) who will be visiting the May 22nd Summit in Seoul to be the adults in the room. It's up to us to make them
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Don't forget, every society comes with an emergency brake; the emergency brake is made of us. DM me if you want to help wire up our society's E-stop button!
A practical framework that works just as well to stop authoritarian CEOs risking our lives without our consent as it does
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Can we get one thing clear? There is nothing radical or extreme about the idea of nonviolently stopping the people who are risking our lives and the lives of our children and loved ones by developing dangerous AI systems, even if it means nonviolently breaking the law to do so.
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@BasedBeffJezos
I'm down for a public debate any time.
To be clear, I do not and have never endorsed terrorism.
The people bringing existentially dangerous systems into existence through their project towards artificial general intelligence are the extremists- they are, in full cognizance and
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What is the name of the crime where someone, in full cognizance, risks causing the death of everyone on Earth in pursuit of their personal goals?
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For all my Pause AI friends:
Gotta rise early if you want to chain an unborn god
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@janleike
The only appropriate decision is not to build a technology that risks destroying human kind.
Anything else is a betrayal of humanity.
Global Stop to AI Now!
A Stop AI protestor is currently chained to the Open AI headquarters in San Francisco, calling for immediate action.
#stopai
#openai
#sanfrancisco
#protest
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Remember the fable of the scorpion and the frog? If a company tells you they’re ok with risking your life to build powerful AI, believe them. If they’re content to with gamble with the future of humanity, there’s absolutely no depth to which they won’t sink.
Wow: "OpenAI leadership had a plan laid out to fund and sell AGI by starting a bidding war between the governments of the United States, China, and Russia."
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@fritterskitter
@tegmark
@scottsantens
It’s not inevitable at all. It’s more likely in my view that a handful of powerful corporations capture most gains from AI & automation and simply use their power to insulate themselves from public pressure by capturing or even overthrowing the political system & repressing
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@NPCollapse
What part of "our objectives may result in the damnation of humanity, but we're going ahead anyway" did you not understand?
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Word on the street says Holly’s going to eat a whole jug of cheese balls in front of Open AI main office on May 13- but only if we get 10,000 invitation flyers for the protest handed out. Is it true? Only one way to know for sure- let’s make it happen!
I won’t eat a whole jug of cheese balls if you come, but with your help the risk of planetary doom could go down!
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The absolute fucking arrogance. These people are toying with your life and the lives of your loved ones and children. We must shut these corporations down now!
Anthropic policy lead now advocating against AI regulation. What a surprise for an AGI lab 🤯
If you work at Anthropic for safety reasons, consider leaving.
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99.9% of the discourse around AI risk, on both sides, is performative. Everybody knows that creating superhumanly capable AI systems is going to destroy humanity, just like everybody knows they are going to die someday. We're just very good at deluding ourselves into pretending
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@primalpoly
@OpenAI
This is a really important and valuable thing you are doing. You have connections with students maybe? They have a lot to say on this too.
I have two children, soon to be entering adulthood.
I try to be realistic and open with them about what is happening. Of course, they can
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@AISafetyMemes
The time for direct action is now.
A Stop AI protestor is currently chained to the Open AI headquarters in San Francisco, calling for immediate action.
#stopai
#openai
#sanfrancisco
#protest
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@NPCollapse
@tszzl
Connor, I don't know your history, was there a point at which you realized that something you were doing was not right and then decided to stop?
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*Every person* who collaborates in AI development projects that they understand to impose a risk of extinction on our species commits treason against humanity.
Wow, Helen Toner claims, w examples, that Altman is manipulative and a liar, created a toxic work environment at OpenAI, & was described by people who worked with him as being psychologically abusive. Some are scared of disagreeing with Altman because he'll retaliate. Link👇
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@SigalSamuel
The time for direct action is now.
A Stop AI protestor is currently chained to the Open AI headquarters in San Francisco, calling for immediate action.
#stopai
#openai
#sanfrancisco
#protest
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@JeffLadish
This is obvious. It should be equally obvious that there is no individual or subgroup with the capability, responsibility or moral right to execute a project with such universal implications.
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@NathanpmYoung
@StatsLime
The median person will do what their social context influences them to.
If it means fighting to the death in service to a genocidal regime, they'll do that.
If it means fighting to the death against a genocidal regime, they'll do that too.
Most people are very heavily
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@primalpoly
@sama
@OpenAI
I think part of the problem is they think they will never meet us- it is easy to behave unaccountably under this presumption. We need to disabuse them of that belief.
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We must abolish AI globally. Anyone who facilitates the development of artificial intelligence betrays humankind.
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@PauseAI
@thatmansscope
Im gonna put this out there for whoever needs to hear it-
We don’t have unlimited time to convince the MP’s or representatives to be the “adults in the room.” The situation is *right now* so urgent that the present inaction by our govs to shut down advanced ai dev globally
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The time for action is now.
72% of voters prefer slowing down the development of AI compared to just 8% who prefer speeding development up
62% of voters are primarily concerned about artificial intelligence while just 21% are primarily excited about it
86% of voters believe AI
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@22TrevorBingham
It's intellectually dishonest.
"The situation is made even more complicated by the fact that many of the people who are most vocally opposed to “human extinction” in the public discussion are also in favor or indifferent to human extinction. How does that make sense? I’ll
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@sama
@janleike
The only thing you have left to do is stop. Each and every person who works on advancing AI with the full knowledge that they are placing human kind at risk is betraying us all.
Stop AI Now!
A Stop AI protestor is currently chained to the Open AI headquarters in San Francisco, calling for immediate action.
#stopai
#openai
#sanfrancisco
#protest
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@Noahpinion
This chain of though is a complete non-sequitor: the climate doesn't care about how much solar you build, it cares about how much carbon you don't burn. In fact, solar build-out is going hand in hand with increased fossil fuel exploitation in developing economies- it merely adds
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@krishnanrohit
What sounds crazy to you actually sounds very reasonable to most people. What sounds reasonable to you sounds very crazy to most people.
Shutting down the development of superhumanly capable AI systems globally is the sane approach that the majority of people wisely support.
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@zetalyrae
I've always though that people feel like wages are earned but realistically wages are like 90% fossil energy subsidy, which is why going back in time 200 years while spending identical cognitive and somatic metabolism budgets can (10^-1) x your income.
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@tszzl
Ironic, he thought he could align a superintelligence, but he couldn’t even align his own tools.
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@tszzl
@xriskology
Yet, you and everyone else developing it are actively denying that choice to the rest of us- and you're willing to risk killing us all in your haste. It's not your decision to make, and these are nearly the worst possible circumstances that the choice could be made.
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@PaperWizardAI
If you’re asking if you’ll be dismembered if you sit down nonviolently in front of the doors of an AI lab to demand a stop to dangerous development that places all our lives at risk- no, no you won’t. Why don’t you come with?
By acting together, we influence others to act, and
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@LaurenWalshArt
Demands which are not backed by action are essentially ineffectual. Shut them all down now!
Americans in 2024: "People are greedy so it's literally impossible to stop a couple of AI companies from building doom machines that risk killing our friends and families we may as well lay down and die"
Americans in Puerto Rico in 2019: "Our governor was caught sending naughty
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@gdb
You can keep your worthless words! Know this: you are seen for the traitors to humanity that subjecting us all to the risk of destruction makes you!
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@bcmerchant
Shut them all down now!
A Stop AI protestor is currently chained to the Open AI headquarters in San Francisco, calling for immediate action.
#stopai
#openai
#sanfrancisco
#protest
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@littIeramblings
@OpenAI
Sorry, it’s already been earmarked for… other things.
Can I interest you in some “unbelievable abundance,” “universal basic income,” or “AGI that benefits all of humanity” instead?
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@ForHumanityPod
Don’t watch the news, be the news.
Society **will not get the picture** that this threat is real untill they see a representative section of people acting as if this threat is real. And when they do, opinion will flip like a light switch.
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@ForHumanityPod
As far as I'm aware you are the single person in the country at this moment that understands what needs to be done right now.
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@viemccoy
I left my home and job to raise as much power against this as I can. What are you doing?
Americans in 2024: "People are greedy so it's literally impossible to stop a couple of AI companies from building doom machines that risk killing our friends and families we may as well lay down and die"
Americans in Puerto Rico in 2019: "Our governor was caught sending naughty
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@RichardHanania
If anyone thinks a few degrees C matter- the average temperature of Earth is about 15C - this is averaged over land and sea, day and night, from equator to the poles. Scientists estimate that CO2 from industrialization is responsible for a bit over 1C of that rise already.
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@janleike
No God damn it! They are not shouldering any responsibility- they are gambling with the future of human kind! No one on Earth has the right to take this risk! Global Stop to AI now!
A Stop AI protestor is currently chained to the Open AI headquarters in San Francisco, calling for immediate action.
#stopai
#openai
#sanfrancisco
#protest
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All AI projects pose an inherent risk of grave harm to humanity and must be shut down globally. Every increment of development is a potential irreversible increase in existential risk. No one has that right. To do so in humanity’s present sociopolitical context is insanity.
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@liron
The time for direct action is now.
A Stop AI protestor is currently chained to the Open AI headquarters in San Francisco, calling for immediate action.
#stopai
#openai
#sanfrancisco
#protest
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True story- In high school I was reading I think it was "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" or another one of Richard Feynman's story books and he talked about how he was separated from his wife Arline & she sent him some pencils once with her name on them, and he was
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@danfaggella
All the ai researchers in the “no” camp worth their salt are working alongside thousands of other elite engineers in the vast technical project spread across major corporations backed by hundreds of billions in capital to furiously construct superhuman AGI.
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@raspy_aspie
@JeffLadish
Unsurprisingly, you can buy a lot of loyalty with the average remuneration at OpenAI
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@the_yanco
Almost never- I was obliged to come to grips with the reality of sudden death at a very young age and I have lived since then with the deep and ever present realization of how tenuous physical existence is.
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Automated Surveillance of the Homeless
God Bless America
Using footage of its streets, San Jose is training algorithms to detect unwanted objects--including tents and cars with people living inside.
This experiment with automated surveillance of homelessness is the first of its kind in the country:
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Do you see this?
Hundreds of thousands of words have been spilled over the threat of AI;
One person is taking the threat seriously.
Shut it down now!
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@ylecun
This just-so story is nothing more than a self-serving comfortable delusional fantasy that flies in the face of the actually observed uneven development of AI capabilities that are already superhuman across various axes.
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@SuvanshSanjeev
@OpenAI
@BorisMPower
You are betraying humanity through your collaboration towards the construction of existentially dangerous systems which threaten my life and the life of my family and humankind. Your obligation is to terminate your collaboration with OpenAI immediately and renounce cooperation
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Dictators are never as strong as they say they are.
People are never as weak as they think they are.
-Gene Sharp
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@BartenOtto
Could telepathic self replicating immortal IQ 170 people with eidetic recall of more information than a human can learn in a lifetime who never sleep and think hundreds of times faster than us take over the world? Probably, if they wanted to.
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What can we learn about how to stop dangerous AI from the experience of successful civil resistance movements?
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@JeffLadish
Shut them down!
A Stop AI protestor is currently chained to the Open AI headquarters in San Francisco, calling for immediate action.
#stopai
#openai
#sanfrancisco
#protest
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A soldier named Nobushige came to Hakuin, and asked: "Is there really a paradise and a hell?"
"Who are you?" inquired Hakuin.
"I am a samurai," the warrior replied.
"You, a soldier!" exclaimed Hakuin. "What kind of ruler would have you as his guard? Your face looks like that
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@tszzl
@NPCollapse
The development of AGI is a threat to all of our lives. No one- not you or any other faction- has the right to continue placing us all in danger. It is duty of all of us who love humanity to join the effort to bring a stop to AGI development globally.
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@Kat__Woods
Kat your writing is very clear & compelling! Have you done public speaking? I feel like you could be very effective at mobilizing people for nonviolent civil disobedience to stop agi development.
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@bcmerchant
Bruh recognizing x risk doesn't make someone the enemy why don't we aim at targets a little higher not this circular firing squad shit.
It's people that are in the camp of accelerating ai dev and using ai to impose their supremacy who are our opponents
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@MelindaBChu1
@PauseAI
Anyone who is making a living or is financially invested in developing artificial general intelligence has a strong incentive to understate or deny the risk. Trying to persuade Anthropic or any of the frontier labs is a fool’s errand, though individual researchers may be able to
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@AISafetyMemes
So there's a thing where there is this kind of naive conception of social change that kind of assumes everything is structurally determined, ie, the fear knob turns up then it hits a point and population does x...
But if you look at the history of how social movements form or
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Let's be plain: Open AI & the other frontier AI companies & their employees are willfully, in full cognizance of the risk and without consent, endangering the lives of everyone on Earth through their technical project towards the construction of powerful artificial intelligence.
Frontier AI companies are aiming to build one of the most transformative technologies in history. For that to happen safely, it should be done in a context that encourages caution and public oversight.
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@liron
The time for direct action is now.
If you want people to get serious about this, show them you’re serious yourself.
A Stop AI protestor is currently chained to the Open AI headquarters in San Francisco, calling for immediate action.
#stopai
#openai
#sanfrancisco
#protest
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@ZakugaMignon
Shut them all down!
A Stop AI protestor is currently chained to the Open AI headquarters in San Francisco, calling for immediate action.
#stopai
#openai
#sanfrancisco
#protest
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@teortaxesTex
Of all the things that never happened, a stable equilibrium of competing human groups in control of superintelligences never happened the most.
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@Liv_Boeree
I dream of a world where each person understands and actualizes our total freedom, agency and power to restructure our political and economic order through nonviolent revolution.
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@gojomo
@ESYudkowsky
But smaller dominos can tip larger dominos.
A few thousand people can shut down OpenAI, Anthropic, etc for a day, tens of thousands for a week, etc… and compel US federal political action to bring about a donestic moratorium & negotiate a global moratorium.
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@HistoryBoomer
First, let me be clear what I am not saying.
I am an individualist and an anti-authoritarian to my core. Totalitarian systems of any kind are abhorrent to me. I'm not a Stalinist, or a Maoist, and I believe that the power of nonviolence is far greater than violence.
I am also
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@NPCollapse
@tszzl
Roon should do what it is in his power to do. He should stop risking the lives of us all without our consent, and begin working to stop everyone else from doing that too, regardless of the outcome. Maybe he will fail, but this is the duty of belonging to the human family.
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The writing is on the wall for everyone who can see.
Abolish the machines now, while you have the chance.
An argument that is frequently made is that AI cannot attempt a takeover because it currently lacks the manufacturing and robotics capabilities to maintain its own infrastructure.
However, that's not quite true.🧵 1/
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Do you know why more people don't fight for their right to exist?
Because fundamentally, most people have great difficulty finding the courage to believe in their right to exist.
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The work of the academic safety community is essentially complete, as the work of the academic community on climate change was essentially complete with the publication of the first IPCC report over 30 years ago. Its inability to provide significant positive results in the
The field of AI governance, which I value greatly, has suffered somewhat in the transition from academia (with its many flaws) to more of an advocacy/comms game. The Just Stop Oil vibes risk overshadowing the careful and epistemically sound work being done by many in the field.
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@florrysbussy
@bcmerchant
I don't think they're on the verge of sentience, and I don't think they need to be to be catastrophically dangerous.
I've been watching this threat for decades, before OpenAI was a gleam in a capitalist's eye.
Fuck narratives.
Dismantle the AI companies now.
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@Plinz
Not far enough by a long shot. Abolish all AI development globally- this is the only appropriate expression of the duty of care we owe our species.
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@SmokeAwayyy
What Illya saw was who Sam is, and is becoming, rather than who he had hoped or thought Sam was or had been.
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@Kat__Woods
It’s not about the money, it’s because this is really happening. The risk is absolutely real.
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