alt Hacker News"AI safety" groups are part of what's described here: you might assume from the general "safety" label that organizations like PauseAI or ControlAI would focus things like data center pollution, the generation of sexual abuse material, causing mental harm, or many other things we can already observe.
But they don't. Instead, "AI safety" organizations all appear to exclusively warn of unstoppable, apocalyptic, and unprovable harms that seem tuned exclusively to instill fear.
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ACCount37 • today at 10:40 AM
I'd rather the "AI safety" of the kind you want didn't exist.
The catastrophic AI risk isn't "oh no, people can now generate pictures of women naked".
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rl3 • today at 10:13 AM
It's almost like there's enough people in the world that we can focus on and tackle multiple problems at once.
We should do both and it makes sense that different orgs have different focuses. It makes no sense to berate one set of orgs for not working on the exact type of thing that you want. PauseAI and ControlAI have each received less than $1 million in funding. They are both very small organizations as far as these types of advocacy non-profits go.