alt Hacker NewsThere isn’t a tool impressive enough to make me not consider it a tool, and treating it as a tool does nothing to hurt its utility as a tool.
“Whoops” when doing risky things with dangerous tools is not a defense.
There isn’t a tool impressive enough to make me not consider it a tool, and treating it as a tool does nothing to hurt its utility as a tool.
“Whoops” when doing risky things with dangerous tools is not a defense.
I certainly don't think that OpenAI has behaved defensibly here; I think the "just a tool" framing is bad for understanding the magnitude of the problem, which is that they have developed out of control alien intelligences with opaque decision procedures, and they are continuing to do so despite clear danger