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LLMs are not going to pose an existential risk to anyone. Also, making AI development less accessible to the general public will not make it any safer.

I am willing to bet all this fear mongering singularity bullshit is just being peddled by large corporations with a vested interest to keep AI development out of reach from the general public.




These failure modes have been recognized since long before the current crop of AI developments.

You're spreading both incorrect information "making AI development less accessible to the general public will not make it any safer" and conspiracy theories "this fear mongering singularity bullshit is just being peddled by large corporations with a vested interest."

There is no alarm bell that tells us when we've reached the point of no return. Even if we don't end up with agentic AI and a sharp left turn, we don't want to live in a world where every organization with a few million dollars can build swarms of flying drones that flood a target area and stab to death anyone out in the open.

Some Nvidia hardware is already export controlled in the same manner as other dual use technologies. More restrictions are coming, not less.


> we don't want to live in a world where every organization with a few million dollars can build swarms of flying drones that flood a target area and stab to death anyone out in the open.

We already can? Just take a look at the maker community, there is so much information/open source software available about building and controlling rockets, drones, etc at home.

Even for stuff like DeepFakes it only makes stuff, that was possible before, a lot cheaper. This certainly won’t be the end of humanity.




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