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History of resistance to new technologies and ideas. Curated by @louisanslow Newsletter: https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/
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A post attributes the argument to economist Robert Shiller, saying automation fears could tank consumer sentiment and crash the economy.
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Pessimists Archive revisits a warning it attributes to Norbert Wiener about the stakes of living alongside machines.
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A post casts Norbert Wiener versus IBM’s Arthur L. Samuel as a historical precursor to Geoffrey Hinton versus Meta’s Yann LeCun.
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A post plays on “AI” by defining it as “Anxious Intellectuals” and blaming panic for harms including mass sterilization and food insecurity.
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A user says a cybernetics pioneer built the Homeostat and warned that its further development risked killing all humans.
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The user says avoiding extreme power concentration requires multiple independent providers of frontier AI models, including open-source options.
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CBS Mornings reports that current and former Anthropic employees warned AI could kill all humans. Critics worry exaggerated forecasts could undermine trust, while a defender of numerical forecasts argues they convey the seriousness of the concern.
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Reuters reports that the UN rights chief warned artificial intelligence could pose an “existential” risk to humanity.
