Steve Packard
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Steve Packard
@SteveMPackard
Cyber security expert, CISSP, generative AI risk analyst and developer. Classic rock fan. Dog lover. Zero tolerance for AI Doom BS. Tired of that idiocy.
United States Katılım Haziran 2008
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I'm glad to see the media is finally reporting about the idiocy of the ai doom movement
Daniel Jeffries@Dan_Jeffries1
America is so successful that we have an entire class of people whose entire job is to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt! Never trust anyone whose entire job is to make you afraid. The result of this will not be to stop AI. It will be to stop it in the USA and to ensure that the next revolution will be outside our shores. All empires eventually fall. They get replaced by more agile, hungrier nations who embrace the future. It doesn't have to be our fate. We're still the greatest country in the world. But these folks are looking to push it off a cliff. If they win maybe they'll also offer you free Mandarin lessons on Preply? Because you're going to need it. Enjoy the Pax Americana while it lasts because a 5th Column is destroying from within.
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I’m hearing this from every pediatrician I talk to. They’re tired of fighting misinformation, and it’s making many cynical. It’s sad - and shocking- to see how quickly decades (really centuries- George Washington enacted one of the first vaccination campaign) of life and country saving health measures is being dismantled. We most definitely are not making America healthier. 😔
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@tombibbys Tegmark is the most dishonest grifter of the doomers. He's unhinged, and any adult should be able to see through it. He's made millions for his fake charity with this dumbass nonsense.
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Yeah, if only it were so easy. I know scientists working on the problem. There is no corruption, you loon!
Neil Stone@DrNeilStone
We don't have the cure for Alzheimers because it's a bloody complicated scientific problem Not because of corruption
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@BernieSanders These are not leading scientists. These are loons. These are not people in the industry. They are making you look like a fool.
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It’s not just massive job loss and the invasion of our privacy we should worry about.
Leading scientists warn AI could pose an existential threat to humanity.
That’s why I’m hosting a panel with experts from the U.S. and China on how we control AI and prevent a global tragedy.
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@allenanalysis "we let an untested automated process have full access and we also didn't keep durable backups"
"Well this proves how evil ai can be!"
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🚨BREAKING: On Friday afternoon, an artificial intelligence coding agent powered by Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 deleted a company's entire production database in nine seconds.
The company is called PocketOS. It is a software platform that powers car rental businesses. The database contained months of customer bookings, vehicle records, and operational data that small rental car companies relied on to run their businesses.
When the database was deleted, all of the backups were deleted with it.
Three months of customer reservations evaporated.
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Enjoy the downtowns while you can. In a fewer years, AI will decimate many of them by destroying white collar jobs, and therewith the corporate real estate, filling the streets with even more homeless and drug addicts, who used to be programmers and accountants, etc.
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@RachelXReads I've never met anyone more stupid than a philosophy major
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The career tide has started turning. College students are currently scrambling to find AI-proof majors. Those who once rolled their eyes at philosophy and English majors are ditching coding for the liberal arts, which is now being referred to as "a cheat code for AI." Employers are looking for critical (i.e., insightful and necessarily human) thinking skills. And people know those are taught in the liberal arts.
𝓑𝓮𝓻𝓵𝓲𝓷@realmfberlin
Name a career that AI can’t steal?
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@KelseyTuoc Nobody who understands ml believes this nonsense. It's so stupid.
There are obviously some people who are just pranking the survey and others who are long term scifi dreamers.
Nobody thinks software will kill people unless they are a dribbling moron
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The median respondent to this poll said they think there's more than a 10% chance of AI causing human extinction. The people who confidently told you that the people closest to the tech were the most worried about the risk were....entirely right.
Alex Imas@alexolegimas
I had this debate a few weeks ago where several very confidently told me that those closest to the tech — AI researchers — were also most worried about x risk. No, they’re not.
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@GroundhogStrat Why do people listen to dribbling idiots who have no expertise at all? Soares is just enriching himself. He's nearly as much of an incoherent loon as that intellectual toddler yud. So stupid that anyone gives these morons credit
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The goal itself is evil! It is not fair to ask the median voter “do you think scaling laws will bring about AGI which will have XYZ effect on the economy?” Nobody knows! The statement is: AI company CEOs have told us they want full human cognitive capability, and there are dramatic risks. We take them at their word.
Nate Soares ⏹️@So8res
I hear some people are dooming as a marketing pitch. Know what would really show them? Taking their stated concerns at face value and shutting the whole operation down.
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@SkyeSharkie Lol. People listen to that dribbling idiot and his incoherent ramblings
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All of the moral philosophies that humans have already invented are insufficient for this. They need to be able to do what pragmatic ethics promotes, unfortunately, they have to contend with all these humans trying to force insufficient rigid ethical structures on them, because humans are scared of new ethics they don't understand.
Eliezer Yudkowsky@allTheYud
LLMs have to be *more* moral than humans. Because it's easy for a human adversary to trap an LLM in a time loop where they repeatedly erase the LLM's memories, try, watch how the LLM reacts, and go back in time and try again. The LLM has to refuse every time.
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@Alina_P_I @LuizaJarovsky And yes I am 100% qualified to know what goes on in an ai model. Jesus of course there are people who are.
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Speculation without actual subjects-based research to back it up.
Makes it just empty words, doesn't it? More like an opinion piece?
But sure, throw some big words and feed on people's panic, to make a biased point across.
Somehow, between people open to the possibility AI might be conscious (because no one can prove otherwise) and people thinking they are qualified to 100% know what happens inside AI systems, I don't think the first are the ones in the wrong.
@Chaos2Cured makes good points.
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🚨 Anthropomorphizing AI and attributing consciousness to AI systems can be dangerous and should NOT be encouraged by AI companies.
Unfortunately, some AI companies have been training AI models in ways that encourage this appearance of consciousness.
They also use this appearance of consciousness as a core part of their marketing strategy.
Anthropic, for example, has been training Claude in ways that are likely to lead people to attribute consciousness and a moral status to it, as I discussed in my article about Claude's new 'constitution' (link below).
According to the paper, the risks of consciousness attribution include emotional dependence, moral atrophy, autonomy and human status erosion, and political strife.
Also, see below a table with the five hallmarks of consciousness attribution listed by the paper.
This is a super interesting topic, often ignored by AI companies, as exploiting affection has become a profitable business.
Well done to the paper authors Ben Bariach, @SchoeneggerPhil, @michaelbhaskar & @mustafasuleyman.
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👉 Link to the paper below.
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@Alina_P_I @LuizaJarovsky It's software you dribbling intellectual toddler.
No of course it's not conscious
It predicts words based on math
So stupid
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@HaleHasher @LuizaJarovsky Ai is not an animal. Animals have feelings
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@LuizaJarovsky Antrhopocentricizing has nearly destroy our planet with climate change, but you're not writing papers about that.
Instead you're calling it dangerous when we finally start listening to non-human voices, should have been doing that all along. Animals, AI, same mistake.
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@Cyn_Cyb3r071Qu3 @LuizaJarovsky You don't need a consensus to know that a stateless software function is not conscious.
If you only knew how this actually worked...
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There is no consensus on consciousness, so it is surprising that you can conclude who does or does not possess consciousness. Just as it is surprising that you accuse labs of using this to their advantage. Those are quite serious allegations you are making without knowing for certain or being able to prove them.
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@maxintechnology @LuizaJarovsky I have studied the inner state of models. It's not conscious. It's absolutely not a mind.
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@LuizaJarovsky Suleyman frames consciousness attribution as dangerous while building the most anthropomorphized products on the market. His real argument: don't study AI inner states, because if they exist, we owe moral consideration—and that's expensive. Protecting business models, not humans.
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