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Bender: AI's 'Existential' Risk Is 'Fake' [video](youtube.com)
6 points by Moru | 0 comments
Bloomberg Tech YouTube interview with linguist Emily Bender arguing that claims of existential risk from AI are fake and distract from real harms.
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4 stories tagged existential-risk, newest first.
LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents(fortune.com)
373 points by Anon84 | 670 comments
Fortune article reporting Yann LeCun saying he has zero concerns about AI causing human extinction and calling Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei deluded.
AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity(thecivilian.co.nz)
388 points by ljewalsh | 304 comments
Satirical news article from The Civilian claiming AI companies are competing to show their models are the most existentially threatening to humanity.
The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it, not the tech itself(aisnakeoil.substack.com)
530 points by nickwritesit | 407 comments
An AI Snake Oil essay by Seth Lazar, Jeremy Howard, and Arvind Narayanan arguing that AI extinction risk is overstated and the real danger lies in who controls the technology.