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‘The People Building AI Earnestly Believe That It Could Kill Us All’: Anthropic Researcher Quits Dramatically (gizmodo.com)
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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If both those premises hold

You're just doing Pascal's Wager For Computers.

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 4 points 20 hours ago

I once saw someone call the Singularity the Rapture but for nerds, and I thought that was spot on.

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

I mean, yeah, I'm not saying that it's plausible. But I don't think we ascribe sound reasoning to those people in the first place.