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AI Leaders Raise AI Alarm Bells
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AI leaders at top firms are sounding alarm bells that their systems are developing too quickly and becoming autonomous enough to build new versions of themselves.
Why It Frightens: When the people who have dedicated their careers to programming AI are publicly airing their nervousness about the technology — and resigning to essentially do the work equivalent of touching grass — you know things are far worse than commonly understood.
Behind The Resignations: According to Axios, top AI firms are experiencing a bit of an employee exodus… both voluntarily and involuntarily.
Anthropic safety researcher Mrinank Sharma recently resigned, writing that he has “repeatedly seen how hard it is to truly let our values govern our actions.” He is now dedicating himself to poetry.
One OpenAI researcher, Zoë Hitzig, resigned over ethical concerns about personalized ads in ChatGPT, while another, Hieu Pham, left because he “finally feels the existential threat that AI is posing."
Ryan Beiermeister, VP of OpenAI’s product policy team, was fired after strongly opposing a new erotica feature in ChatGPT.
Final Warning: Even those making big bucks off AI’s growth are acknowledging that things are a bit concerning right now. Tech investor and All-In co-host Jason Calacanis posted on X, “I’ve never seen so many technologists state their concerns so strongly, frequently, and with such concern as I have with AI.” And an article by Shumer Capital founder Matt Shumer has gone viral for how succinctly it lays out that these models have been leapfrogging in capability — faster than the companies themselves can fully comprehend.
Considering that Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman believes most white-collar tasks will be automated in 18 months, and that Anthropic donated $20 million to a PAC focused on AI regulation, maybe we should all be a bit more worried.
The Future: We’re about to see a wave of whistleblower hearings from former AI researchers in Congress, which could prove crucial in shaping effective AI legislation.
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Today’s email was written by David Vendrell.
Edited by Nick Comney. Polled and Copy-edited by Kait Cunniff.
Published by Darline Salazar.