There was a time in the past, even just last year, where I understood why people didn't agree with me on my AI doomerism.

It's gotten to the point now where we literally have the frontier labs saying, "hey, so we created this AI which presents biological, chemical and cybersecurity threats to the public, oh and it also has self-improvement potential. We tested it to see how crazy this thing is, and it was a total shit show, breaking out of our sandbox then proceeding to hack a bunch of stuff. But don't worry we're taking this very seriously – we're going to continue to development and test, but try a bit harder to cage it going forward".

It's honestly absurd just how predictable all of this is to anyone who frequents AI doomer communities...

The idea that you can cage an AI which is breaking leet coding records is so dumb it's hard for me to even have theory of mind for the people who think this is reasonable. And the big brains who think this are genuinely arguing crap like, well we'll just use the AI to patch the problems with our cage.

But there more!

AI optimists used to argue that we'd never be so stupid to hook up advanced AIs to the internet. Lmfao!!

AI optimists used to argue that we'd obviously not be so stupid to create an AI whose sole goal is to maximise the number of paperclips in the universe. And I guess we haven't built that, but it's not because we're not stupid enough to do it, but just that we'd prefer to create AIs whose sole goal is to maximise the number of offensive cybersecurity challenges it can beat.

I think the whole way we doomers have been way too charitable. We always assumed that people will care about AI risks, and try their best to mitigate bad things happening. That bad things would happen by mistake. We never even bothered modelling the scenario where people would just simply not care, and even as the AI we all warned about was being created invent conspiracy theories on internet forums about how bad things aren't really happening and it's all just a marketing gimmick.

I hate ranting like this... I'm sorry for not picking my words more carefully. I'm just getting so angry and fed up with this. This is my life and my families life on the line. I don't care about the economic potential of AI. I just want myself those I love to have the chance to live a normal life without having to be worried about what some moronically unserious AI company is building next.

A year ago I was felt like there was at least possibility people would see the warning shots and try to get us back on the right path. But this just isn't happening...