Throwing the institutional baby out with the bathwater: Physicist & YouTuber Sabine Hossenfelder’s superficial and sensationalist take on the demise of the Future of Humanity Institute
This is a sensationalist video put out by an influential YouTuber who generally creates good science videos but in this case does not do the work of the FHI justice nor its substantial and pioneering achievements. To sweep the rug from under the feet of such crucial researchers at an important inflexion point in the development of global AI regulation is hugely detrimental to those efforts. Perhaps others would like to give some pushback in the YouTube comments as I myself (and some others) have also done:
“Generally, I enjoy your videos Sabine and think you do a great job explaining science to the layperson. This one is beneath you, however, full of sensationalist cheap jibes, and lacking serious analysis of the very important work that went on at the Institute into existential risk and the dangers of AI. The closure of this institute could not have come at a worse time, seeing as we are on the brink of getting a global body on AI regulation together at the UN. Of course the Institute and its leaders made mistakes, and they are suffering from the reputational fallout of the FTX financial fraud caused by someone who called themself an effective altruist. (The philosophy itself is also not without its flaws and is still evolving.) But you really are throwing the baby out with the bathwater with this video. Very disappointing.”
Throwing the institutional baby out with the bathwater: Physicist & YouTuber Sabine Hossenfelder’s superficial and sensationalist take on the demise of the Future of Humanity Institute
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This is a sensationalist video put out by an influential YouTuber who generally creates good science videos but in this case does not do the work of the FHI justice nor its substantial and pioneering achievements. To sweep the rug from under the feet of such crucial researchers at an important inflexion point in the development of global AI regulation is hugely detrimental to those efforts. Perhaps others would like to give some pushback in the YouTube comments as I myself (and some others) have also done:
“Generally, I enjoy your videos Sabine and think you do a great job explaining science to the layperson. This one is beneath you, however, full of sensationalist cheap jibes, and lacking serious analysis of the very important work that went on at the Institute into existential risk and the dangers of AI. The closure of this institute could not have come at a worse time, seeing as we are on the brink of getting a global body on AI regulation together at the UN. Of course the Institute and its leaders made mistakes, and they are suffering from the reputational fallout of the FTX financial fraud caused by someone who called themself an effective altruist. (The philosophy itself is also not without its flaws and is still evolving.) But you really are throwing the baby out with the bathwater with this video. Very disappointing.”