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Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by curiousgal on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @02:46AM (#38360612)
> taking money from the Saudis on the order of billions of dollars to make AI accelerators, even though the single greatest threat from strong AI (according to Hinton) is rich and powerful people using the technology to enhance their power over society.

This is absolutely peak irony!

US pouring trillions into its army and close to nothing into its society (infrastructure, healthcare, education...) : crickets

Some country funding AI accelerators: THEY ARE A THREAT TO HUMANITY!

I am not defending Saudi Arabia but the double standards and outright hypocrisy is just laughable.

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Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by xinayder on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @03:36AM (#38361004)
The difference is that the US Army wasn't created with the intent to "keep guns from the hands of criminals" and we all know it's a bad actor.

OpenAI, on the other hand...

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Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by 0xDEADFED5 on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @02:57AM (#38360718)
it's okay to give an example of something bad without being required to list all the other things in the universe that are also bad.
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