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WSJ Links AI Math Advance to Extinction Risk

The article claims an AI math advance proves dangerous progress toward extinction risks.

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Unusual Whales quoted a Wall Street Journal article stating that AI is powerful enough to crack the hardest math problems and kill us all. The piece references a Millennium Prize breakthrough as proof of AI's accelerating and terrifying progress. Brit Hume noted that the article headline fails to explain exactly how AI could kill everyone. Other replies discussed whether AI harm requires human direction, similar to nuclear weapons, and criticized fear messaging aimed at tech audiences rather than the public.

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@unusual_whales"AI is powerful enough to crack the hardest math problems, and kill us all," per WSJ20d
@scottsttsIt’s so tiring to argue with both “AI can’t do anything” people and “AI is going to kill us all” people at the same time20d
@pplsartofwar@unusual_whales Translation: "We need money. Give it to us or we will make AI that destroys the world"20d
@brithumeOnce again, another scary headline above an article that never gets around to telling us how, exactly, AI could "kill us all." https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-math-millennium-prize-safety-openai-anthropic-0517982520d
@pplsartofbizNote how the fear mongering and product focus is on fellow tech people. Rather than ordinary people, who apparently are doing proofs for the Fundamental Theorm of Calculus and doing math competitions.20d
@TwelvistenSo when you come across someone who says "It's likely that Ai will kill us all." or something similar, you can't know just from that statement if the person is talking about Ai as a conscious entity on its own OR Ai being used by humans (which we both already agree has some chance of happening).20d
@AIandDesignI was always arguing against the notion that AI will one day kill us all on its own, with made-up probabilities. I was never arguing that AI cannot be used to do harm. Of course it can. But the harm is directed by humans. Just like how a nuclear ICBM by itself won’t do any harm. The human launching it would be doing the harm.20d
@Venturinglist@unusual_whales @tthompson1000 Atomic bombs are capable of ending humanity.20d
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    @unusual_whales"AI is powerful enough to crack the hardest math problems, and kill us all," per WSJ20d
    @scottsttsIt’s so tiring to argue with both “AI can’t do anything” people and “AI is going to kill us all” people at the same time20d
    @pplsartofwar@unusual_whales Translation: "We need money. Give it to us or we will make AI that destroys the world"20d
    @brithumeOnce again, another scary headline above an article that never gets around to telling us how, exactly, AI could "kill us all." https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-math-millennium-prize-safety-openai-anthropic-0517982520d
    @pplsartofbizNote how the fear mongering and product focus is on fellow tech people. Rather than ordinary people, who apparently are doing proofs for the Fundamental Theorm of Calculus and doing math competitions.20d
    @TwelvistenSo when you come across someone who says "It's likely that Ai will kill us all." or something similar, you can't know just from that statement if the person is talking about Ai as a conscious entity on its own OR Ai being used by humans (which we both already agree has some chance of happening).20d
    @AIandDesignI was always arguing against the notion that AI will one day kill us all on its own, with made-up probabilities. I was never arguing that AI cannot be used to do harm. Of course it can. But the harm is directed by humans. Just like how a nuclear ICBM by itself won’t do any harm. The human launching it would be doing the harm.20d
    @Venturinglist@unusual_whales @tthompson1000 Atomic bombs are capable of ending humanity.20d
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