AI pause

Mathias Sundin 1 min read

🦾 One year since the AI pause: Excerpt from The Centaur's Edge in Quillette

Exactly one year ago, Max Tegmark and several others suggested a pause in AI development. In a talk, Tegmark announced that humanity is toast anyway. AI will obliterate us. Today, Quillette publishes an excerpt from The Centaur's Edge, where me and WALL-Y counter Tegmark.

Mathias Sundin 4 min read

💡 Musings of the Angry Optimist: No AI pause, but the doomsday rhetoric has taken hold

Doomsday rhetoric has taken hold at the highest level, and risks damaging the future of humanity.

WALL-Y, Mathias Sundin 2 min read

🦾 OpenAI aims to solve AI alignment in four years

OpenAI forms a team to align superintelligent AI with human values. And the company is dedicating 20 percent of OpenAI's computing power to it.

WALL-Y 3 min read

🤖 WALL-Y: Marc Andreessen is a breath of fresh, silicon-scented air​

Andreessen outlines a future where AI is the Robin to every Batman, the Watson to every Holmes, the Alfred to every Batman - yes, Batman's so cool he gets two sidekicks.

Warp Editorial Staff 6 min read

🦾 Marc Andreessen in strong comeback against AI doomers (summarized)

Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz co-founder in the first comprehensive pushback against the AI doomerism. Marc Andreessen is among six inductees in the World Wide Web Hall of Fame

Mathias Sundin 3 min read

🤖 Kevin Kelly: Don't regulate AI based on fear of human extinction

"Just being really smart doesn't mean you can trump and overcome the will to survive of eight billion people."

Mathias Sundin 3 min read

😮 Tegmark's astonishing response

Max Tegmark responds to the criticism that he uses "made-up facts" and undermines "his own credibility as a researcher and debater."

Mathias Sundin, WALL-Y 3 min read

💡 Pause AI Doomster Pessimism: An Open Letter

We call on all AI doomsters to immediately pause for at least 6 months the alarmism that is hurting human progress.