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Re:What is the actual percentage of people For and Against AI? by lf88 on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @08:54PM (#50000733)
Building a super-intelligent AI is the stated goal of major AI companies. It may or may not be possible, but due to the recent surge in capabilities of frontier models I would not take any risk.

Frontier models are, indeed, already too capable and too dangerous. I would have been more comfortable if a stop of the development occurred 12 months ago. However, the second best moment to press the "stop" button is now.

Re:What is the actual percentage of people For and Against AI? by Zeruxe on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @08:58PM (#50000763)
Very well said..

But why would they stop when they have a clear path up? They don't care about the people they just care about growing their wallets. I don't see them ever pressing the stop button aslong as results are there, also I do think that results will probably deteriorate, as I would like to believe transformers will hit a limit or rather a bottleneck, perhaps several bottlenecks. Where progress will massively slow down.

Re:What is the actual percentage of people For and Against AI? by tripleee on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @09:27PM (#50000941)
Regulate it globally

Of course they won't stop by themselves

Re:What is the actual percentage of people For and Against AI? by Zeruxe on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @10:02PM (#50001161)
Yeah but how would you realisticaly enforce this ? global regulation?

Let's pretend US and EU agreed to slow down development, what would stop China or other countries outside "west" from continuing?

I think that international coordination would be very difficult when AI is a national competition.

Re:What is the actual percentage of people For and Against AI? by tripleee on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @10:54PM (#50001442)
It's not something you can easily hide. You need the energy usage, GPUs, huge data centers
Re:What is the actual percentage of people For and Against AI? by verdverm on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @10:20PM (#50001258)
> too capable and too dangerous

I see negligence as I look past the fear mongering from our dysfunctional media ecosystem