Toby Howell
speaker
32,096 appearances
337 recordings
5 series
first heard Oct 2023
last heard 5d ago
Toby Howell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In a thread that has racked up nearly 150 million views,
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Anthropic employee Jacob Coxson said that the systems being built by AI companies could cause human extinction.
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His post and the gent general sentiment was confirmed by other employees with one saying, We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans and put the odds of that happening at greater than 10%.
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Ted Cruz chimed in on the view, saying he read that whole tweet thread that the developer put out, adding it was highly concerning.
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Bernie Sanders echoed the sentiment saying American people overwhelmingly want to ban artificial superintelligence and pause the development of AI.
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Heck, even Cheryl Crow posted an Instagram story weighing in on Coxson's post, saying people should demand our leaders put aside their greed and prevent this from going forward.
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To sum up the general vibe, Axios wrote an article titled The AI Twilight Zone, where it noted the inherent contradiction.
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Predictions that to define the AI debate today.
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On the one hand, a lot of everyday people haven't really found a use case for AI beyond treating it like a more powerful Google.
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And yet, here we are being told that it could end all of humanity.
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Then you have the people loudly warning of the imminent extinction of our species and yet continue to build it anyways.
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Meanwhile, you look at the market and how it's pricing in the end of days, and stocks are hovering in near.
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All-time highs powered by the AI trade.
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Neil, help me make sense of all this.
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Is the end nigh?
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And there is a reason why researchers are putting their probability higher than zero percent.
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It's because we've seen kind of breadcrumbs of both of these scenarios maybe coming to pass.
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The first scenario that you mentioned, kind of the Oppenheimer scenario, is where individuals get empowered to do mass harm by these very powerful tools.
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And Anthropic recently put out a risk report saying that they have come across people do.
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Doing bioweapon-related research on their platform.
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