Monday Morning Moan - time to face up to the fact that the AI safety debate has 'jumped the shark'!

After an entirely batshit few weeks, I think it’s time to admit something - AI safety discourse has totally jumped the shark.

I mean when you get to tech bros harassing the Pope with claims of consciousness and warning of human extinction at one end, and tales of devilish agents conspiring to break out of human control and do bad things at the other, you’ve pretty much run out of rhetorical escalation. Haranguing God’s own representative on earth is probably as far as the hype can stretch before it snaps (unless you want to risk crossing over to the great unknown to make the case directly, obvs.)

But when you’re talking about God-like intelligence on one hand, and demonic agency on the other, I guess it kind of makes sense that you’d run to the Pope crying ‘apocalypse’.

It’s just a shame he doesn’t seem to give them...

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