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Live tension Sam altman decoded interview ai Concern & critique · 4 attributable reactions
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Established AI field signal Signal 14d ago
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Sam altman decoded interview ai

12 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Damien Williams, Dare Obasanjo
“Remember when us phil-tech types said effective altruism was just utilitarianism taken to its worst possible extents? This is what we meant: Real harm for unquantifiable potential benefit. "…'we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening…” evidence ↗
12 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Justin Hendrix Hypervisible Damien Williams Drew Harwell steven t. piantadosi Dare Obasanjo e.w. niedermeyer +4
2 experts discussed this · 10 posts
e.w. niedermeyer: he really does look like he's about to step off into a bold new future with none of us in it
Mary Branscombe: Right over the cliff
e.w. niedermeyer: the new Vanity Fair cover seems to subtly propose an interesting possibility: perhaps Sam Altman just has to accept some bad things happening in the name of human flourishing? www.politico.com/news…
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Established AI field signal Analysis 15d ago
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frontier labs rogue ideology essay

Tracing the rogue ideology of the frontier labs to their product choices

6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
“Hey look at this * PM Mark Carney pledged to ‘Buy Canadian.’ Since then, $7.8 billion in contracts went to American corporations archive.is/zDBfX#select... * Tracing the rogue ideology of the frontier labs to their product choices buttondown.com/apperceptiv…” evidence ↗
6 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Erin Kissane Frank Pasquale e.w. niedermeyer tweety fish ae By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

“Hey look at this * PM Mark Carney pledged to ‘Buy Canadian.’ Since then, $7.8 billion in contracts went to American corporations archive.is/zDBfX#select... * Tracing the rogue ideology of the frontier labs to their product choices buttondown.com/apperceptiv…”

“I think we’re finally getting somewhere on Explaining “AI Safety“ to regular people buttondown.com/apperceptive...”

2 experts discussed this · 12 posts
tweety fish: new newsletter, laying out in probably far, far, far too much detail how yudkowsky and the weird ideological commitments of ai safety eventually led to OpenAI and Anthropic massively overtraining t…
e.w. niedermeyer: new newsletter, laying out in probably far, far, far too much detail how yudkowsky and the weird ideological commitments of ai safety eventually led to OpenAI and Anthropic massively overtraining t…
tweety fish: FINE
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