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zdragnartoday at 1:23 AM2 repliesview on HN

Having witnessed so many people treat LLMs as a something divine, I can only assume the reasonable people at openai and anthropic were all pushed out long ago, and the majority that remain believe the crazy hype despite Tesla-self-driving-level predictions from these companies that don't come true.

I'm not worried about what they think. I'm worried that too much infrastructure- water, power, defense systems, etc- remain running on tech from an outdated era of understanding security.

> they believe no one else will act responsibly, so they must do it themselves, despite the risk.

This genuinely makes no sense. Them getting there first in no way precludes bad actors from also getting there. It might as well be another marketing stunt.


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reducesufferingtoday at 2:46 AM

> I can only assume the reasonable people at openai and anthropic were all pushed out long ago

Typical uninformed take on the side of "doomers are crazy".

Both CEO's of OpenAI, Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, and many in their leadership, believe AGI has a very real probability of causing humanity's extinction. Both companies were founded upon this belief, it is at the core of the company. Only later were mercenaries hired chasing $1m compensation packages.

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