[ExI] Yudkowsky ‘Humanity’s remaining timeline? It looks more like five years than 50’

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‘Humanity’s remaining timeline? It looks more like five years than
50’: meet the neo-luddites warning of an AI apocalypse.
>From the academic who warns of a robot uprising to the workers worried
for their future – is it time we started paying attention to the tech
sceptics?
by Tom Lamont   Sat 17 Feb 2024

<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/17/humanitys-remaining-timeline-it-looks-more-like-five-years-than-50-meet-the-neo-luddites-warning-of-an-ai-apocalypse>

Quotes:
Don’t imagine a human-made brain in one box, Yudkowsky advises. To
grasp where things are heading, he says, try to picture “an alien
civilisation that thinks a thousand times faster than us”, in lots and
lots of boxes, almost too many for us to feasibly dismantle, should we
even decide to.
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What would the others have us do? Stewart, the soldier turned grad
student, wants a moratorium on the development of AIs until we
understand them better – until those Russian-roulette-like odds
improve. Yudkowsky would have us freeze everything today, this
instant. “You could say that nobody’s allowed to train something more
powerful than GPT-4,” he suggests. “Humanity could decide not to die
and it would not be that hard.”
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