Nathaniel Whittemore

At this point in time, in coverage of what looks like may have been a second attack, how could you possibly justify this?

There is zero newsworthiness justification.

If following two attempts on his life, you are sharing photos of his home online and describing where it is, you are contributing to the violence directly, and I am going to interpret this as your goal.

And yet others, even from within the AI space, were willing to point out that it was possible that the AI industry's own rhetoric wasn't really helping things either.

Cree Beauvoir writes, During the first attack, we lectured the pause AI community on how their words hold weight and lead to violence, but we didn't think then to feel the weight of our own, instead of showing people how AI will make life better, how it will give us all just a little bit more time in life for the things we really care about, how it will fix our broken government or healthcare systems.

We spent the last few years telling people the story of AI is one where AGI makes humans unnecessary, that everyone will lose the jobs they worked so hard at to barely get by, and making jokes about the permanent underclass.

And we wonder why the people fear us and revolt.

Buko Capital Bloke writes, Basically, every one-on-one and office hours I had this week was people outright asking if they'll be replaced by AI.

From ICs up to directors, everyone's scared.

This is an existential issue and mistake for the labs.

I know they're trying to juice their IPO.

They'll regret the doomerism.

Casey Newton made a similar argument.

In a piece called Sam Altman's Second Thoughts, he asks, OpenAI's CEO is asking the public to lower the temperature on AI, but who turned it up in the first place?

His conclusion?

Ultimately, the public's disdain for AI was not invented by journalists.

It was co-created by the people building the systems, who have consistently told us that it is imminent and dangerous.

That the public has now begun to take them at their word should not surprise them.

Isn't that what they've been asking for all along?

All of these are important conversations to be had, but I think that in general, they are a little bit missing the forest for the trees.