Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it...
by jazzyjackson on Thursday June 01, 2023 @04:03AM
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alignment doesn't require coordination or manipulation
what gets published by academia is based entirely on who gets funded
my conspiracy theory is a stretch, granted, but to clarify:
It behooves the cloud providers for their customers to believe that their latest $1/hour l/user upcharge is revolutionary (so much so that ethicists are shouting please, stop, you know not what you do!)
OpenAI and Anthropic need the public to trust them and only them as providers of "safe" AI (not like the other open-source AI that might turn into an especially persuasive holocaust denier any minute) - so from the regulatory angle they want to play up the theoretical dangers of AI while assuring the public the technology is in good hands.
As for the academics, well it's not like anyone gets funding for writing boring papers about how nothing is going to happen and everything is fine. No one has to be puppeteered, they just need to look around and see what hype train might direct some funding their way.
what gets published by academia is based entirely on who gets funded
my conspiracy theory is a stretch, granted, but to clarify:
It behooves the cloud providers for their customers to believe that their latest $1/hour l/user upcharge is revolutionary (so much so that ethicists are shouting please, stop, you know not what you do!)
OpenAI and Anthropic need the public to trust them and only them as providers of "safe" AI (not like the other open-source AI that might turn into an especially persuasive holocaust denier any minute) - so from the regulatory angle they want to play up the theoretical dangers of AI while assuring the public the technology is in good hands.
As for the academics, well it's not like anyone gets funding for writing boring papers about how nothing is going to happen and everything is fine. No one has to be puppeteered, they just need to look around and see what hype train might direct some funding their way.