matthewhughes.bsky.social
Journalist (ex The Register, The Next Web, HowToGeek). Writer. Software developer. Dog owner (x3). Scouser. I have a newsletter about how tech companies are ruining our lives. https://whatwelost.substack.com/
👤 Joined on 04 julio 2023
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@matthewhughes.bsky.socialAnd then, on the next page, Roose describes AI Ethics as a “cult.” …Kevin, man, you are making a whole lot of choices right now. Your editor should’ve maybe talked you out of some of them.
Show PostAsad Ramzanali, who worked in Biden’s White House, sounds like a total badass here. 👑
Show PostRoose asked a chatbot a ton of weird questions, and then the chatbot spun out and gave him weird answers. The PDoom crowd took it as proof that they’d been right all along. “What if Sydney 4.0 decided to hack into my wife’s email?” …Sure, Kevin, or what if it was all just software all along?
Show PostChapter 18 retells the famous “Sydney” chatbot incident. This clearly shook Roose. It made him a Believer. But, reading this passage with three years of hindsight, it all seems so …overblown.
Show PostOpenAI and Anthropic have been *no better prepared* than Google for all the ways that this shit is going wrong. They talk a big ethics+regulation game, then do whatever they can to stay ahead in the race to AGI. Believing in AGI matters for fundraising. It hasn’t mattered for preventing harms.
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