Critics, including Max Tegmark, heavily criticized the analysis.
Anthropic hired an economist who warned AI could destroy humanity, but argued "it is optimal to take a 1 in 3 chance of ending human existence in exchange for a 2/3 chance of dramatically raising living standards by a factor of 55".
This is not satire.
https://www.ft.com/content/bb04671c-4377-4231-96ef-0f8e57ed5d1b
Many users condemned Anthropic for hiring an economist who weighs trading a 1-in-3 AI extinction risk for massive living gains, calling the framing reckless pseudointellectual justification for unacceptable danger.
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@BenjaminNorton Reminds me of this graph 👇🤣
guys there is no good tradeoff for 1 in 3 chance of life ending lmao. just the smartest retards on earth saying dumb bullshit
@powerbottomdad1 This whole thing is such a master class in why you can never let nerds run the show
@BenjaminNorton Anthropic hired an economist to rationalize 1 in 3 extinction odds for economic upside. that's not risk management. that's budgeted apocalypse
@powerbottomdad1 they literally believe it though
@BenjaminNorton It's going to hilarious if AI identifies billionaires and gross inequality as the bug in the system.
@BenjaminNorton This is BS, economists are useless. Renewables are a way bigger factor in huma survival what does he/she mean with 55 times? Totally OOA (out of ass) nrs.
@BenjaminNorton Christ came back to redeem people who repent to have eternal life, and Claude AI espouse ending human existence though AI algorithm. So you can see who is the devil and Satanic forces.
@powerbottomdad1 illustrative example taken out of context in bad faith award
@BenjaminNorton i for one want to be the first to welcome our AI overlords... 😐🍿
@BenjaminNorton Do you really think Ben (and I think you are the one to judge), that humanity can enter a long lasting technological civilization on its own brain power? Maybe the period after the world wars was unique in that the West came to their senses. Maybe a Chinese collective can, but...
@RnaudBertrand @BenjaminNorton Just a steady job and a couple of extra potatoes. That's good enough for most people, and they are right in their thinking. And if you can identify the quote you don't win a prize.
@BenjaminNorton @Kathleen_Tyson_ Living standards for whom?
@BenjaminNorton However, it's ctully way worse than it seems: the "rising living standards by factor of 55" is A MADE UP NUMBER or a number that only applies to the top 1% of society.
@BenjaminNorton I don't need to actually read that to know it's complete pseudointellectual horseshit.
@BenjaminNorton We are governed by psychopaths who are advised by sociopaths.
@BenjaminNorton He probably believed in herd immunity to solve Covid too.
@BenjaminNorton Hmmm would I play a game of Russian roulette with two bullets chambered instead of one in exchange for the promise that life MIGHT be better in the future. Can’t say i would.
@powerbottomdad1 Why are people booing for pointing out the obvious -- that I am working very hard on a technology that I claim will wipe out humanity or make everyone irrelevant?
@BenjaminNorton 😂😂😂😂😂 you really can’t parody this. We live in a cartoon world. At least you escaped the matrix
