Well Daniel_Eth mentions a few examples in his Medium post; I’ve encountered lots of these ‘e/acc’ people on Twitter who actively crave human extinction and replacement by machine intelligences.
Adding support to Geoffrey’s perspective here. Originally I thought it was just twitter shitposting, but some people in the ‘e/acc’ sphere seem to honestly be pro-extinction. I still hope it’s just satirical roleplay mocking AI doom, but I’ve found it quite unnevering.
I think it’s interesting that in Senate hearing in May, Senator Kennedy (R-LA) said the following “I would like you to assume there is likely a berserk wing of the artificial intelligence community that intentionally or unintentionally could use artificial intelligence to kill all of us and hurt us the entire time that we are dying.” which might be a co-oincidence, might be talking about terrorist threats, but still it couldn’t help but ring a bell for me.
Do you have a source for the claim that a significant minority think AI is worth it even if it kills us? (Not mean in an accusatory way.)
Well Daniel_Eth mentions a few examples in his Medium post; I’ve encountered lots of these ‘e/acc’ people on Twitter who actively crave human extinction and replacement by machine intelligences.
Adding support to Geoffrey’s perspective here. Originally I thought it was just twitter shitposting, but some people in the ‘e/acc’ sphere seem to honestly be pro-extinction. I still hope it’s just satirical roleplay mocking AI doom, but I’ve found it quite unnevering.
I think it’s interesting that in Senate hearing in May, Senator Kennedy (R-LA) said the following “I would like you to assume there is likely a berserk wing of the artificial intelligence community that intentionally or unintentionally could use artificial intelligence to kill all of us and hurt us the entire time that we are dying.” which might be a co-oincidence, might be talking about terrorist threats, but still it couldn’t help but ring a bell for me.