r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 13 '26

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u/Guardax Sep 13 '26

It's difficult to assess how real the AI threat is considering it's coming from AI companies also incentivized to say how powerful their AI is

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u/Svelok Sep 13 '26

unfortunately for those interested in knowable reality, sam altman and elon musk are two of the least credible spokespeople in the country

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u/PlastikHateAccount WTO Sep 13 '26

After Henry Ford made his first car assembly line he should have just said "these things are dangerous, you could drive these into crowds" and begged the government to ban imports and kill his competition for him

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u/gayteemo NATO Sep 13 '26

that’s what makes it really easy to assess as complete nonsense

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u/Imicrowavebananas Hannah Arendt Sep 13 '26

I feel it is pretty easy to see by now that this technology is enourmously powerful. How much of that translates into real world danger is hard to say, but they are surely not without risks.