AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC

23 days ago by Return_of_Chippy to c/technology

It comes as the AI firm's boss has called for the technology's development to be slowed down, citing "serious" risks.

I'm not an AI techie and I'm not well educated on LLMs/AI in general. The issue I'm having is the dichotomy between how people talk about it. I've heard completely opposite ends of the spectrum. From AI is quickly becoming advanced enough to threaten human society, all the way to its a glorified dictionary/search engine that can't really do much of anything. I know Lemmy has a steep anti-AI slant. But, can someone talk about this in a way I can wrap my head around why the divide seems so big?

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HS1111 -13 points 22 days ago

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Lemminary 1 point 22 days ago

Who let in the crazy?

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