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#Bernie_Sanders just created a video to make a point about #issues of #privacy in #AI (a real problem). His supporters on #Muskrat's platform came for me when I quote tweeted his post saying, “at this point, #Bernie’s job seems to be l#obbying for #Anthropic.”
So I’m going to elaborate on the #corporate psyop that has been happening since the beginning of time and how no one seems to learn their lesson.
#Bernie has been repeating, almost verbatim, #Dario_Amodei's talking points, for a while now, even quote tweeting him. #Amodei positions Anthropic as the #ethical alternative to #OpenAI just like OpenAI positioned itself as the ethical alternative to #Google in 2015 and everyone ate it up. This was an article from then, the headline says that Muskrat, #Thiel, #Altman + friends founded an “#altruistic AI venture” 🙄
►https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35082344
I don’t remember who said this, but it’s like telling you to buy Camels instead of Marlboros while claiming to fight tobacco companies. If any politician parrots talking points of a CEO on a funding round, even on the harms of AI systems, you should be worried.
Remember when Altman schmoozed them and newspapers had headlines of him “begging” to be regulated and hailing him as an #Oppenheimer figure who is so worried about his own creation 🙄?
That was just last year!
►https://time.com/7267797/ai-leaders-oppenheimer-moment-musk-altman
You don’t believe Altman is such a figure but you think Amodei, who insisted that OpenAI use all 10,000 #GPUs and train the biggest model possible, when he was there, is such a figure?
In his video, Bernie is literally creating a #Claude ad, showing the system as an all knowing being that answers all of his questions. An ad for Anthropic, a company claiming that they can’t even confidently say that “Claude isn’t conscious”.
A company amassing #billions saying they’ll at once save us from evil super #intelligent #machines and build the #benevolent super intelligent machine that will solve all of our problems. They’re so worried about people not getting “reskilled” because workers are going to be replaced by their machine god that will do our jobs so much better than us. Investors want to hear about machine gods displacing workers because, well, that’s how they make money.
On another day, we’ll discuss why this is happening.
Effective altruists and overall #TESCREAL bundle #billionaires have infiltrated the #labor movement and #journalism, offering fellowships with staggering amounts of money like they invested ridiculous amounts of money into these companies claiming to build machine gods.
Money for the “problem” and #money for “the solution.”
Tech giants pledge $1bn for ’altruistic AI’ venture, OpenAI - BBC News
►https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35082344
Prominent tech executives have pledged $1bn (£659m) for OpenAI, a non-profit venture that aims to develop artificial intelligence (AI) to benefit humanity.
The venture’s backers include #Tesla Motors and #SpaceX CEO #Elon_Musk, #Paypal co-founder #Peter_Thiel, Indian tech giant #Infosys and #Amazon Web Services.
Open AI says it expects its research - free from financial obligations - to focus on a “positive human impact”.
Scientists have warned that advances in AI could ultimately threaten humanity.
How Musk, Altman, AI Leaders Face the ’Oppenheimer Moment’ | TIME
►https://time.com/7267797/ai-leaders-oppenheimer-moment-musk-altman
This year, hundreds of billions of dollars will be spent to scale AI systems in pursuit of superhuman capabilities. CEOs of leading AI companies, such as OpenAI’s Sam Altman and xAI’s Elon Musk, expect that within the next four years, their systems will be smart enough to do most cognitive work—think any job that can be done with just a laptop—as effectively as or better than humans.
