The Aporia · Notes on the third era of slop

AI lab leaders urge immediate U.S. action regarding artificial intelligence risks, which have moved from a niche concern to a major topic of discussion. However, current political leaders are not prioritizing this issue. The article notes that while tech companies lack the credibility to discuss AI safety effectively, their concerns should still be taken seriously. Additionally, it mentions a recent antitrust court loss for large tech firms resulting in minimal changes, and hints at advancements like GPT-6 and the approaching era of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

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Facebook and Instagram have lost three times in antitrust court, but these losses haven't led to any significant consequences. In other news, the AI industry is warning for a slowdown, which some are suggesting we should pay attention to. Meanwhile, Clara Shih, who used to work at Big Tech companies, believes that AI will soon displace many entry-level jobs and is now trying to address this issue. The narrative suggests that these changes may not be enough to counter the trend of global bans on Facebook and Instagram.

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🔮 Writing on his blog, Gates predicted that the age of apps was coming to an end.

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🔮 “Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!” Hubinger wrote.

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🔮 Maybe we should listen?

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🔮 (“If we had posted this as a story on LessWrong,” wrote the rationalist blogger Zvi Mowshowitz, “it would have been dismissed as too on the nose, the humans too blind and stupid, the AIs too idealized and doing strange decision-theoretic and absurd-maximizing things we didn’t train them to do.”)

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The leaders of AI labs agree that the United States to act, and soon. asserted

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