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It’s not every day that the would be masters of the universe are going on television and proclaiming an imminent doomsday, as if they were street preachers or the people who used to walk around public parks with sandwich boards saying “The end is nigh!” But the heads of major artificial intelligence companies like Anthropic and OpenAI have spent the last couple of weeks doing just that, claiming that they themselves are bringing forth Armageddon and that only government bureaucracy can stop them. But are these “AI Doomers” a true, organic response to concerns best known by those building the god-machine, or is it a cynical media operation by a mega-business interested in using the regulatory state to lock out potential competitors? Our colleague Parker Thayer, who is skeptical of the motivations of the corporate titans, joins us to discuss.
Links:
https://capitalresearch.org/article/my-problem-with-effective-altruism/
https://capitalresearch.org/article/left-wing-billionaire-dustin-moskovitz/
https://www.influencewatch.org/for-profit/anthropic/
https://www.influencewatch.org/for-profit/openai/