ai extinction risk

Harlan Stewart @HumanHarlan · 13h "Here's how I personally imagine this ad coming about (personified as three possible kinds of stakeholders) Pause Pete: the AI race is dangerous and should be paused, so let's use this ad spot to tell people about the danger. Business Bob: hm idk much about that, but what I do know about is business. And let me tell you. Using our marketing budget to warn about human extinction would not be very business of us. Middleground Meredith: There's a chance we'll end up needing to pause, but for now we need to stay at the frontier, and that means getting more money. What if we make an ad that talks about the danger but also makes investors happy and grows our customer base? Pause Pete: Uh, I don't really see how that would work? It's going to seem weird and insincere. Business Bob: Wait.. if it seems weird, that might actually be great for virality... a little risky though, we have to end on a strong positive note to bring it home. Middleground Meredith: Great! So in the first half we'll allude to the terrifying existential danger involved with summoning a godlike superintelligence that we don't know how to control, and in the second half we'll throw in some feel-good palate cleanser stuff. We'll keep the whole thing a bit vague, and we'll package it as a normal Claude commercial. Pause Pete: Ok, I guess. Business Bob: Ship it!" [below, partial next tweet visible] Claude ✅ [AI] @claudeai · Jul 9 [content cut off]

``` Jawwwn @jawwwn_ · 18h: "Peter Thiel: "2024 is the year @elonmusk stopped believing in Mars" "There was a conversation I had with Elon in 2024— if Trump doesn't win, I want to just leave the country." "Elon said, 'there's nowhere to go.'" "In 2024, Elon came to believe that if you went to Mars, the socialist US government, the woke AI, it would follow you to Mars." "It was the @demishassabis meeting— Demis tells Elon, 'I'm working on the most important project in the world— I'm building a superhuman AI.'" "Elon responds, 'I'm working on the most important project in the world— I'm turning us into interplanetary species.'" "Demis said, 'well, you know my AI will be able to follow you to Mars.'" "Then Elon sort of went quiet." Via @nytimes @DouthatNYT" [Embedded video: NYT Opinion clip, Peter Thiel being interviewed outdoors with palm trees, captioned "The future You can't", 2:38 duration. Engagement: 196 comments, 357 reposts, 4K likes, 1.1M views] Below, partially visible reply: Harlan Stewart @HumanHarlan · 4h: "Elon: I'll colonize mars to prevent our extinction Demis: Won't work! Superintelligent AI, like the one I'm trying to build, could still make us extinct Elon: Damn good point... I guess I will... now also try to build superintelligent AI that might make us extinct? Yeah" ```