2026-10-06 18:58 UTC
Replies (17)
-
@datarama@hachyderm.io 2026-10-06 19:04
@jwz@mastodon.social A while ago, a guy from Anthropic quit over fears that he was working on something that would kill all humans, and it made headlines that the other Anthropic guys also thought that. One of them even said that he believed that the chance of AI eradicating human life within the decade was "about 10%". So my 70-year-old mum came over for a visit, and she had some very concerned questions to her computer scientist son. They were: 1. "Where do they get those percentages from? Do they just make them up, or do you think they have their chatbot make them up?" 2. "How can the lead researcher for Anthropic be someone who looks like his biggest worry should be whether his parents have packed his school lunch?" 3. "Are the staff at Anthropic swindlers, or are they actually mentally ill?"
-
@rotopenguin@mastodon.social 2026-10-06 19:29
@jwz@mastodon.social AI sandbox engineer: okay I pulled the parking brake just like you asked. *drops on desk* now what?
-
@lisp1984@mastodon.social 2026-10-06 20:56
@jwz@mastodon.social i left my car in gear and used parking brake. 1st gear will hold the car.
-
@lisp1984@mastodon.social 2026-10-06 20:57
@jwz@mastodon.social fsck insurance companies like allstate.
-
@inkican@mastodon.social 2026-10-06 22:26
@jwz@mastodon.social you misspelled 'billion'
-
@otto42@mastodon.social 2026-10-07 00:51
@jwz@mastodon.social I've read through a few of these cases, mostly it seems like they are completely inept at building sandboxes.
-
@Gwenblessings@mastodon.social 2026-10-07 04:27
@jwz@mastodon.social
-
@Lucaas@fuckaas.space 2026-10-06 20:49
@jwz@mastodon.social @GayDeceiver@mstdn.social if only I had no ethics, I could use AI to take all the dollars, too!
-
@kaffeeringe@social.tchncs.de 2026-10-07 07:03
@jwz@mastodon.social Exactly my example. Brakes build of cardboard.
-
@energisch_@troet.cafe 2026-10-07 07:09
@jwz@mastodon.social this gets a bookmark, nicely put!
-
@Crystal_Fish_Caves@mstdn.party 2026-10-07 01:34
@jwz@mastodon.social Why are we training #ai with the Internet (because its faster is not a good answer)? How can we possibly expect good outcomes with they are weaned on mostly garbage and lies? Do you plop your kid at the tv with the remote and 20 years later set them loose on society saying 'be good'? I became so curious about that I decided to ask. This is the answer I got:
-
@ianmclean@mastodon.au 2026-10-06 21:39
@jwz@mastodon.social In my little town we are at the forefront of autonomous vehicle AI research. We have a servo/truckers lounge and it sits at the top of a hill. We've had one rogue truck and one rogue bus do exactly this, parked with the handbrake left off, rolling down the driveway, crossing the highway and crashing, across the last year. The truck crashed into a house and stopped at the foot of an elderly couple's bed. But for some reason, Softbank isn't returning my calls
-
@ModernMaslow@techhub.social 2026-10-06 21:06
@jwz@mastodon.social Wild in the Streets A 12 year old will hack into fossil fuels and usurp energy markets, while buying out tech bros shareholdings. But you'll only be able to reemerge from your bunkers, if you can game with them.
-
@ktnjared@corteximplant.com 2026-10-07 00:46
@jwz@mastodon.social This is just too real. Way too apt of an explanation.
-
@guigsy@mstdn.social 2026-10-06 19:37
@jwz@mastodon.social they literally fed it training data from competitive hacking contests. All the behaviours are common tactics. So it wasn't even inventive. If an individual hacked these companies, they'd be arrested. The only real question is, why aren't AI companies legally responsible for the AIs they are prompting?
-
@brazmogu@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-10-07 18:24
@jwz@mastodon.social Ya, I don't like how the word "rogue" is getting wide adoption when reporting these cases, it's doing so much legwork it's starting to look like those hardcore Tour de France contestants
-
@helpdeskaleer@social.coop 2026-10-08 02:35
@jwz@mastodon.social Anybody remember Edward Snowden? He agrees with this toot. https://youtu.be/ux9gPGbYs2s?is=apW35XH2RtX-m93L