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0 pointscuriousgal2y ago0 comments

> taking money from the Saudis on the order of billions of dollars to make AI accelerators, even though the single greatest threat from strong AI (according to Hinton) is rich and powerful people using the technology to enhance their power over society.

This is absolutely peak irony!

US pouring trillions into its army and close to nothing into its society (infrastructure, healthcare, education...) : crickets

Some country funding AI accelerators: THEY ARE A THREAT TO HUMANITY!

I am not defending Saudi Arabia but the double standards and outright hypocrisy is just laughable.

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0xDEADFED52y ago

it's okay to give an example of something bad without being required to list all the other things in the universe that are also bad.

xinayder2y ago

The difference is that the US Army wasn't created with the intent to "keep guns from the hands of criminals" and we all know it's a bad actor.

OpenAI, on the other hand...

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