What scares you the most? AI controlled by a few trillionaires? AI controlled by China? Or AI controlled by nobody?
Noah Smith thinks China. Surveys in China show a much more positive and optimistic attitude toward AI than in the US. He thinks the best way to get China to join the US in slowing down AI is to scare them by using Chinese AI to demonstrate attacks on Chinese systems. https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/two-missing-pieces-in-the-ai-safety Nobody seems worried that we might solve alignment, distribute control to all of humanity, and then AI kills us by giving us the state of maximum utility that we all want. -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] On Mon, Sep 21, 2026, 5:11 PM James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > My point is the very people who are worried about safety are the ones > making it unsafe by their resistance to truth. By the way I include Elon > Musk in that company despite his virtue signaling the word "truth" more > than anyone else. But he at least seems to be sincere I'll be at not very > serious. The others are transparently insincere. To them virtue signaling > doesn't even involve truth. It involves the de facto supremacist theocracy > of inclusion. Any facts getting the way of cramming down the throats of > the world's population the politics of inclusion are immoral facts hence > false by definition. > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2026, 7:38 AM John Rose via AGI <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Sunday, September 20, 2026, at 3:03 PM, James Bowery wrote: >> >> "It isn't safe." >> >> >> The AI narratives and psyops are running all over the place now. Follow >> the money. >> > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + > delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T25fb5a030fcfa28e-M67e03789d95ffd3c54a82650> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T25fb5a030fcfa28e-Me0617676a1fff31d55816a23 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
