One resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire
Originalauszug
Jacob Coxon was the one who stumbled into this new powder keg, totally unaware of what was going to come.
Kontext
Then, some basic factors of human nature apply, with the most crucial being that fear sells. Fear is the simplest story, the one people cannot look away from. What looked like a fairly innocuous event – another AI researcher quitting citing safety risks – landed into a very different environment and it caught like wildfire. The discussion of existential risk, mass extinction, and the trajectory of AI has traveled further than even the most seasoned AI commentariat would ever predict.