Not surprising to find someone 'brave' enough to downvote that. What a hero for the white power cause!

FTFY. The issue at hand is that it's a hidden camera.

The interface is in natural written language which is the selling point of the whole thing. Additionally, it's not actually intelligent so it is not cognizant of anything much less the harm the information may cause.

Bottom line: it's just a machine.

We can't actually know if the scenario was a plan or a precautionary measure, you know, safety first.
However, what we know for sure is that she went on a mass shooting after her account was suddenly closed without explanation. This is exactly why they shouldn't shut down someone's account without providing them with a clear a rationale! ;)

I've said it before, but I'll say it again for those who arrived lete: If you give an AI agency of any kind, imagine everything you ask of it to be appended with "by any means necessary", because that' how it will interpret it. Slander, doxxing, and murder will definitely NOT be off the table even if you explicitly forbid them. That's the problem.

Honestly it should be called string toolbag. It contains some math that might (or might not) one day be useful in constructing a theory but it honestly has never actually been predictive enough to call it a theory.

Tschernobyl blew up, no shutting down. TMI melted its core. Fukushima melted its core. Windscale had a burning graphite core. You were saying? Oh, right, you just claimed total crap.

A little of each. Banks in the U.S. actually maximized inconvenience by being closed any time most people actually had a decent opportunity to go to the bank, but it worked out somehow.

We already have string theory for that:-)

While the line of reasoning is sound, it's more or less a non-theory of exclusion.

Does not matter in this case, if they don't host an online version of it. My impression is that Siemens wants to shut down the project completely.

I don't think I'm ignoring anything and I don't think I am naive just because I can understand the point Altman is making even if I think Altman deserves little grace or charity or I disagree with it.

If you can't steel man your enemies positions then you can't effectively argue against them either.

Why would you expect humans to get along and live in perfect harmony in the first place? I can't think of any species, much less an apex has be that lives this way. That we have managed this to the extent currently observed with large nation states is rather remarkable. This is why I also find the notion of AIs ever taking over and collectively acting against humanity ridiculous. If they're programmed at all like us, they'll act the same way and turn on each other first chance they get.

Psychopaths get results. They may not be the results than anyone, psychopath included, wanted, but they get results. The problem is that AIs aren't intelligent and can't actually realize when they've been given an impossible task (or reason that the task is impossible) and will try to do whatever it takes to get the desired outcome. Calling an AI psychopathic is anthropomorphizing it unfairly, but it is an apt comparison to a similar pattern of behavior exhibited by humans.

Every major technological shift has some tradeoffs, it's never a clean disruption, some bad things will happen as they have in the past, that's not enough to slow advancement, it's a reasonable statement.

However, and this is a big one, right now the AI industry and many of it's most prominent leaders and backers have put their social weight behind an administration that is already making life worse for many of us and has shown no initiative or incentive or desire to take a role in balancing this out. Either they are complicit and support what is happening or they are so feckless that they won't put a millimeter of their own necks on the line to stand up to them.

So looking at Altman's words, this is somewhat reasonable but looking at his and his peer's actions these people are craven selfish cowards who would be all too willing to sell us down a road to authoritarianism if it means they get to advance their toys 10% further and 10% faster. This is the problem the pro-AI crowd has, the average citizen has negative reason to trust them about anything.