Joe Allen

Ilya left.

I don't know about their motives, but I do know that as that began to branch out, you had Dario Amadei and Jack Clark leave OpenAI to form Anthropic.

You had Musk leave, and then eventually, right after signing the Future of Life statement, calling for a pause on AI, right after that, Musk announces XAI is open for business.

And now you've got...

multiple frontier companies.

And they all, because they've got a lot of the same employees moving back and forth, a lot of the same ideas, and a lot of this is already open, they are copying each other and building these systems up.

And so what you end up with, the way Tegmark describes it is basically you have all these CEOs with a kind of messiah complex.

And they believe that if they are the ones to create the system, they will be able to resist their own kind of inner demons and create something benevolent.

I agree with Tegmark that that's the dynamic, and I also agree with him that that is delusional.

These people are not even in command of their most base instincts, let alone in possession of some kind of moral high ground.

I was at that hearing, actually.

That was the last thing.

When I was here just before I left for the hearing, and you had three parents, two of whose children had killed themselves at the goading and encouragement of character AI and also GPT.

They also discussed the meta policy towards children.

Look, I saw those stories, the first one with Adam Rain, probably two, three months ago.

It seemed curious seeing those parents in person weeping and describing what happened to their children and describing it in detail.

It's very clear that...

When people call these things digital demons, it may not be as ironic or symbolic as someone like me might present it to be.

I mean, what else do you call a being who seduces a child into suicide, tells them that the child should listen to the machine instead of the parents, should confide into the machine instead of the parents?

It's as demonic as it gets.