AI companies privately say we’re hurtling toward doom
Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones attended a high-profile tech event for 40 world leaders recently and reported there are grave concerns over the existential risk from AI from “four of the leading modelers of the AI models that we’re all using today.”
He said that all four believe there’s at least a 10% chance that AI will kill 50% of humanity in the next 20 years.
The event was held under Chatham House Rules, which allow the content to be discussed publicly but not the identities of the speakers.
The good news is they all believe there will be massive improvements in health and education from AI coming even sooner, but his key takeaway was “that AI clearly poses an imminent threat, security threat, imminent in our lifetimes to humanity.”
“They said the competitive dynamic is so intense among the companies and then geopolitically between Russia and China that there’s no agency, no ability to stop and say, maybe we should think about what actually we’re creating and building here.”
Fortunately, one of the AI scientists has a practical solution.
“He said, well, I’m buying 100 acres in the Midwest. I’m getting cattle and chickens, and I’m laying in provisions for real, for real, for real. And that was obviously a little disconcerting. And then he went on to say, ‘I think it’s going to take an accident where 50 to 100 million people die to make the world take the threat of this really seriously.’”
Looking slightly stunned, the CNBC host said: “Thank you for bringing us this great news over breakfast.”
I don’t believe AI per se is the capital-A Antichrist.
However it has been put on my heart to consider that the Antichrist may well be “transhuman”, and artificially enhanced “intelligence” is one facet of transhumanism.
Humanism, and moreso transhumanism, are absolutely of satan.