OpenAI Insider Estimates 70 Percent Chance That AI Will Destroy or Catastrophically Harm Humanity

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TechnologyEnglish • 5 months ago

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OpenAI Insider Estimates 70 Percent Chance That AI Will Destroy or Catastrophically Harm Humanity

floofloof ( @floofloof@lemmy.ca )

TechnologyEnglish • 5 months ago

A former OpenAI researcher became so convinced that the technology would usher in doom for humanity, he left the company and called it out.

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The energy demand of AI will harm humanity, because we keep feeding it huge amounts of energy produced by burning fossile fuels.
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  divert all energy use to these ai projects so they can regurgitate reddit shitposts more accurately, thanks

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