Opinion: The Aliens Have Landed, And We Created Them
It is not every day that I read a prediction of doom as arresting as Eliezer Yudkowsky's in Time magazine last week.
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It is not every day that I read a prediction of doom as arresting as Eliezer Yudkowsky's in Time magazine last week.
LLMs don’t manipulate atoms or bits; they manipulate us. And it’s not so much that GPT-5 will “decide” to wipe us out. Rather, the risk is that we will tear ourselves apart as a species by using Large Language Models for ignoble or nefarious ends.
“The most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI, under anything remotely like the current circumstances,” Eliezer Yudkowsky’s wrote in Time magazine last week.
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The numbers show RSL’s long-ball approach.