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Re:Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is re... by edanm on Thursday November 02, 2023 @04:13AM (#38110383)
Sure. You can read the book "Superintelligence" by Nick Bostrom. You can also just ready things that Geoffrey Hinton has said, or Stuart Russel (both prominent AI researchers).

Not everyone makes exactly the same argument, of course, and Eliezer Yudkowsky is both one of the first to make AI safety arguments, and also one of the biggest "Doomers". But at this point he's very far from the only one.

(I happen to mostly agree with Yudkowsky, though I'm probably a bit more optimistic than he is.)

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Re:Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is re... by hollerith on Thursday November 02, 2023 @10:55AM (#38114336)
It was plain to many people that AI research was dangerous before Eliezer started say so publicly in 2003. Mostly these people kept silent though and chose not to enter (or not to persist in) the AI field.
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