AI Doomsday Bullshit Is Getting Tired

It's good to look back historically to 1-2 years ago.

Originally LLMs were not connected to the internet. When web search was exposed as a tool, the doomers lost their minds. Here Yudkowski:

> “So, ChatGPT is not going to destroy the world. GPT‑4 is unlikely to destroy the world unless the people currently eking capabilities out of it take a much more dangerous route – like, hooking it up to systems and the broader internet in ways that let it act, scale, and learn in uncontrolled ways.”

Sure, internet is one thing, but we wouldn't let LLMs act agentically, and make decisions for us. Fine but we wouldn't use it for long running unsupervised tasks. Okay fine but we wouldn't give them access to our actual computers.

Fast forward to today where we have tens of thousands of people running OpenClaw or similar agents with unlimited permissions 24/7 and ... nothing happened.

You would think AI doomers would reflect on their mantra "if anyone builds it everyone dies" and question whether AI demands basically a totalitarian one world government to restrain it.

First of this meta ilk I've seen since 2024 (and it is tired)

We pay too much attention to the idea of AI becoming Skynet and not enough attention to the more mundane reality that AI is simply a force multiplier for all manner of fraud and predatory commercialism.

I'm so glad this is being discussed more openly. Ronen Farrow's piece on OpenAI had a sentence that stays with me "Sam Altman is a liar".

They ran out of good things to say about AI so now the Darios and Sams turned to vague threats of world doom if we don't trust them to build the LLMs.

Tiresome, or tiring, perhaps; but not tired.