alt Hacker NewsHe resigned and now what? There are thousands willing to do his role, and many labs are competing in that race.
His resignation and his statement doesn't do anything but buy him attention which is what all this post about in my opinion.
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> Dyson: That's right. There's no way I'm gonna finish the new <model>, not now. Forget it. I'm out of it. I'll quit <Anthropic> tomorrow.
> Sarah: That's not good enough.
> Terminator: No one must follow your work.
> There are thousands willing to do his role
1. Does that matter ? There are thousands willing to do my role - what impact does that have on me doing it or not?
2. Why weren’t these thousands doing it already?
Willing to and able to are different things
It buys attention for the issue. Many people (see other comments in this very post) refuse to believe these things.
And by resigning he no longer has to feel personally guilty for what happens.
Agreed. And his doom words have set a 1000 mouths in the Pentagon/Whitehall/August 1st Building/Kremlin salivating with excitement.
Take China, for example. Look at any recent ML conference, and see the fraction of articles majority-authored from Chinese universities and labs. Do you think they'll slow things down anytime soon? I don't think so!
It's a global arms race, and we're just spectators.
Awareness and morality I suppose. Which generally doesn't matter in the capitalist AI race.
Even if others won't act right, that doesn't mean you have no responsibility to act right. I think his premise is flawed - the idea that we will get an actual intelligence out of the slop machine that is LLMs is laughable - but if you grant the premise that this is dangerous research which could kill us all, you have a moral imperative to not participate.
It seems that, at the very least, he's giving substantial resonance to the issue.