Exploring the potential harms and risks associated with artificial intelligence, including misinformation, bias, misuse by bad actors, and the future risk of artificial general intelligence. Also discussing the need for regulation and the debate around big tech companies inflating fears for market dominance.
The war of words between the AI safety advocates on the one side and the AI open source advocates on the other has gotten increasingly contentious. This week, Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yan LeCun accused the leaders of Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic of stoking fears around AI in order to provoke a response from regulators that would be beneficial to their businesses and bad for open source competitors.
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