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A nuclear-style freeze on AI development would just hand the advantage to Beijing. Here is the real AI threat to humanity: the danger that Americans panic, hit the brakes on AI development and lose the AI arms race to Communist China. No one knows yet what the fast-moving field of AI will bring, but this much should be clear by now to everyone: Today’s AI arms race is as consequential as the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union was during the Cold War — but the danger of falling behind is far more severe. “We have to be as...

As I have been writing, the current AI Doomerism hype isn't motivated primarily by real concerns about the potential dangers of rapid AI development. It's a play to create an industry cartel that controls the market and becomes "too big to fail," ensuring that the financial apocalypse the frontier AI companies face does not come to pass. It's also useful for the Democrats who have jumped onto the Doomer bandwagon, because, in exchange for the financial salvation they promise to OpenAI and Anthropic, they will get to decide what AI presents as "reality." It is the ultimate reality-control mechanism, ensuring...

Last week, a relatively unknown 27-year-old researcher quit his job at Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI model.Then, he published his first post on X (formerly Twitter). In it, he warned that artificial intelligence could eventually kill humanity. The post exploded across social media. Within days, it racked up more than 150 million views. Major news organizations seized on the story. Politicians demanded action. And some of the biggest names in AI started debating whether development should slow down.Then, on Monday, Wall Street reacted. Investors started dumping many of the very companies powering the AI boom. But something doesn’t...

Don’t ask an AI chatbot how many letter e’s there are in the word “seventeen.” Or do, actually, if you want to see how dodgy the tech remains. In a clip that’s gone viral in AI circles, the content creator who goes by “Husk” asks ChatGPT’s Voice mode to answer this simple counting question. Not only does the confident-sounding AI get it wrong — insisting there’re only three e’s instead of four — it doubles down so vehemently that it effectively tries to gaslight the user. “Let’s go through it. S-e-v-e-n-t-e-e-n,” ChatGPT spells out, after assuring that its underlying model,...