The semantic drift of “AI psychosis” from “break with reality exacerbated or caused by sycophantic chatbots” to “person with strong feelings about AI which are not the same as the strong feelings of AI held by the speaker” is bad
There’s a certain glib response to warnings of harm from powerful AI that is “they’ll only do that if you tell them to do it”. Which - yes. That’s my concern. Have you seen people?
Fascinating seeing someone claim that the public has rejected AI slop, when if anything “the public” is its most ardent and passionate creator
lots of problems with AI but I don't think anyone can deny that one of the best things about it is that we don't have to hear about crypto any more
Don’t say “an OpenAI agent swarm autonomously hacked HuggingFace”. Once you say “OpenAI built a ‘hack any company’ machine and accidentally pointed it at HuggingFace, where it performed exactly as designed”, you’ll see that there’s nothing to be alarmed about
Increasingly think the UK row over dangerous dogs is one of the better lenses to unpack questions of AI safety. “No such thing as a bad dog, only a bad owner” maps quite neatly on to “don’t attribute agency to AI - there’s always a person who made the decisions to blame”.
imo people are spending too much time talking about the “escape from the sandbox” part of the Hugging Face incident and not enough time talking about the “fully autonomous hack of a major company” part
First take about Demis stepping back is that it’s not great news for the UK. DeepMind is a far more British company than market forces would have dictated otherwise, in large part due to the specific determination of Demis to ensure it remained that way.
Do find it somewhat amazing that “Anthropic was exaggerating the risk of Mythos” takes still exist in the wild after GPT Sol autonomously owned a multibillion dollar company
Moderately interesting mark of Trumpism’s power waning: AISI quietly went from being the “AI Safety Institute” to the “AI Security Institute” after JD Vance gave his “AI safety is woke” speech. It has not, yet, renamed itself the Super Intelligence Security Institute.
